Word: unorthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turmoil & Toughness. But alongside the evil there was an artistic turmoil and a civic toughness that prompted Pope Boniface VIII to call the Florentines "the fifth element." The McCarthy heroes are, of course, the artists. Her descriptions are sharp and unorthodox (of Il Rosso's Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro: "The half-carnival atmosphere of an insane asylum or of a brothel during a police raid"). Together with the book's superb photographs, such comments have the effect of giving entirely fresh life to tourist memories. The Stones of Florence is in the end a solid tribute...
Experience and depth and skill are all necessary for a top flight team, and the Crimson backfield is blessed with all of these. Ravenel, whose unorthodox play calling has upset many opponents, and left halfback Chet Boulris, who gained 886 yards last year, provide a dangerous pass-run combination...
Under her unorthodox rig, Storm sailed fine, both on and off the wind. She finished 3 hr. 18 min. 26 sec. behind the scratch boat. But with the extra four hours' handicap, Storm won handily, beat the fleet on corrected time...
...incoming swell lofted the four boys and the fish in a thrashing mass into the shallows' foot-deep waters. Grabbing rocks, the brothers clubbed the shark to death. Ten minutes later, alarmed fishermen racing to the scene found the four small boys, exhausted but proud, resting beside their unorthodox catch: the still twitching body of a 7-ft., 180-lb. salmon shark. Admitted the littlest, Takeaki: "I was scared...
...Anderson took an unorthodox step: instead of setting a rate on a single issue of short-term securities, the Treasury this week will auction off $3.5 billion in such notes to see what the buyers will pay. Then it will set the rate on a $1.8 billion short-term issue. Anderson tried no long-term bond, simply because the Treasury can not get an interest rate high enough (i.e., above 4¼% ) to sell it. Publicly, the Treasury is keeping a stiff lip. Privately, it trembles...