Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relations between the main characters are finely graded, and call on the best powers of the actors to express. Dana Andrews responds with his strongest performance in several years. Peter Finch not only fits without a wrinkle into the planter's character but moves through the outlandish manse with such negligent assurance that the audience is convinced that he grew up in it. Elizabeth Taylor, though very beautiful, is too young and inexperienced an actress to fill a role designed for Vivien Leigh...
...School Survey Commission) was appointed by the Legislative Council, and it recommended, among other things, that teachers be paid on a merit basis and that all school districts be subject to the regulations of the State Textbook Commission. You imply that I brought these matters before the Legislature as outlandish proposals...
...payroll and taking kickbacks, was homesick for the Capitol. He said that he is "thinking about the possibility" of running for Congress again. In strongly Republican Bergen County, where many onetime Thomas constituents are still convinced that J. Parnell was framed by vengeful leftists, the possibility did not seem outlandish...
...around the world to mean a cynical exploitation of genuine fears, a studied contempt for fair play, a cunning talent for concealing failures by loudly baying after new victims. Too many abroad, urged on by a U.S. press that would leave no word of McCarthy unrecorded-no matter how outlandish-took him as their image of the American statesman and overemphasized his influence...
Some tobaccomen thought the blame for the slowdown should be put on the cigarette companies, and especially the new filter cigarette publicity. Cried Grower-Warehouseman Fred S. Royster, president of the Bright Belt Warehouse Association: "The public is being frightened from tobacco by outlandish medical claims by some of the manufacturers. Much of this advertising is plain silly...