Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however dimly, the motives that make loyal Communists confess crimes they did not commit. Since the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty and Robert A. Voge-ler, the Western world has also come to realize that relentless and refined pressure on body & mind can make the firmest anti-Communist admit to outlandish offenses. What still remains puzzling is why Communist trials, so carefully stage-managed as spectacles, can be so blatantly inept as to strain the credulity of a high-school boy. Did the Communists really expect the Czechoslovaks to believe the absurd conspiracies confessed so abjectly at the recent Slansky trial...
...history when she was in high school, and after she married, her husband offered his to his father-in-law. The questioning may take from 1½ to 3½ hours, and penetrates every aspect of the subject's sexual life, including details that seem utterly outlandish even to highly sophisticated people...
When English movie-makers get together to produce a comedy, they first throw caution to some wind or other in constructing an outlandish plot. Then they work meticulously over every minor character and every line of dialogue to provide a delightful counterpoint to the extravagances of the story. The result is more often than not complete hilarity...
...Artists, like children, are excited by the irrational, the bizarre and the outlandish...
...Harvard brawl took place after 1,500 students, gathered in Harvard Square to nominate Pogo, the comic-strip opossum, for President of the U.S., stayed on to battle the unsympathetic Cambridge cops for four hours. Both riots served chiefly to dramatize a newer and more outlandish form of campus disturbance which took form March 20, when a mob of University of Michigan males suddenly headed for the women's dormitories to steal and brandish girls' underwear...