Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fascisti are Verdi caricatures who can be deflated by a phonograph blaring out the Internationale from the bell tower in the town's main square as Mussolini begins a speech; the worst they do to the perpetrator is give him a humiliating dose of castor oil. The strangest and most wonderful things happen in the city of Amarcord, but they are all good things: A great ocean liner sails by the coast at night, lit up like it was sailing out of an electric forest; the whole population of the town piles into its boats and waits for the ship...
...town called St. Augustine, that there would be another American girl with me, that I would be teaching swimming, sailing and anything else I wanted, was all I had been told. Visions of igloos, wigwams, communcation gaps and teaching swimming among icebergs flashed vaguely through my mind. Yet the strangest thing of all was that, from the very beginning, there was no doubt in my mind that I would...
...gets too pedantic, in both his language and his ideas, and partially because he shifts from the present action to an excerpted translation of van Hovendaal's works on Samuel Butler's utopic Erewhon and his own concepts of Utopia which are rightly described as "some of the strangest in modern thought...
...least 20 patients and throwing the rest into a panic. One small boy rolled on the ground in hysteria and chewed pieces of broken glass. Greek Cypriots defending Nicosia periodically popped into available apartments to sip soda and listen to radio reports of how they were doing. But strangest and saddest of all was that the first battle between Greeks and Turks in seven years had been touched off by bitter animosity between Greek and Greek. The root of the war was enmity between the tall bearded Makarios and Greek Strongman Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannides. Makarios felt that Ioannides, working...
...champagne corks popped merrily at Harry's Bar on the Via Veneto. Such an outpouring of emotion in Italy is usually reserved for the end of wars or the victories of national soccer teams. Last week's cheering, however, was a response to the outcome of the strangest-and perhaps one of the most significant-votes of Italy's postwar history. By a margin of 19,093,929 to 13,188,184 in a special referendum, Italians defeated an attempt to repeal the 3½-year-old law permitting divorce...