Word: unorthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Song for God. When he was eight years old Benjamin Britten revealed his unorthodox musical behavior by writing an angry song to be sung by God. He wrote a U.S. operetta named Paul Bunyan which got no place. At Tanglewood he glumly watched rehearsals wearing a pearl-grey jacket, a yellow tie and strap sandals...
There is no basis for the statement that tubercle bacilli growing on the classical media are so modified as to "make experiments inconclusive": for all we know it may be the bacteria growing in our own unorthodox media which are modified...
...foundations which purchase his textile mills, or getting outside foundations to buy them. The foundations then lease the mills back to Textron. Example: the Rhode Island Charities Trust owns the Manville Mills and leases them to Textron at $210,000 a year. The U.S. Treasury, always suspicious of any unorthodox financial practices which seem to benefit a corporation taxwise, looked over Textron-connected foundations, dropped the matter. Little's own explanation is that he would rather help charitable foundations while he's alive than will them money...
Completely stalled in the first two periods more by their own sloppy passing and stick-handling than by Andover tactics, the lacrossemen repeatedly lost men on penalties for using unorthodox methods in trying to stop the prep school boy's attack. In the third quarter when they saw themselves in danger of losing the game, the Crimson team took the offensive and steadily outplayed the Blue and White...
During the years in which he was forging his intellectual reputation, Professor McIlwain, known informally as "Mae," established himself as one of the faculty's most enthusiastic and unorthodox tennis players. Though he has not played during the past three or four years, he denies that he has given up the game. During his temporary abandonment of tennis, classical music and the search for old books compete for his leisure hours...