Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strangest symbol of such controversy is Anwar Khatib, a suave attorney who maintains a dingy office behind the Herod's Gate post office and proclaims himself to be the Jordanian governor of Jerusalem. And although the last Jordanian forces were driven out of Jerusalem 15 years ago this June, a number of consuls come to pay him Official courtesy calls...
America's oldest city is the site of one of its strangest attractions, a garish attempt to capitalize on the successful cartoon series and paperback books by the same name. Thing is, it works. There is something awe-inspiring about seeing the heaviest living man sitting outside on a chair the size of a Mazda. How about a wax representation of a man with three eyes? Don't knock it til you've seen it, or the shrunken heads, either. While you're in the area, check out Fort Castillo a quizzical structure with eight-foot thick walls made...
...strangest "arms bazaar" that TIME Correspondent Bruce van Voorst had ever seen was a collection of grimy peasant tents spread out on a dusty knoll outside the town of Mahabad, in the Kurdish mountains of western Iran. There, a clientele of mercenaries and international agents milled about, examining Israeli-made UZI automatics, Chinese and Soviet AK-47s, boxes of grenades, pre-World War II Czech-made Brno rifles and spanking new U.S. Colt .45 automatics. "For the serious customer," says Van Voorst, "a salesman would casually discharge a few rounds into a nearby hillside...
Lemon thus stepped in to make his second appearance as relief manager for Steinbrenner. In 1978 Lemon was named to replace Billy Martin after Martin called Steinbrenner a convicted liar. Lemon took the Yankees to the World Series championship that year but in one of the game's strangest turnarounds, was himself ousted in June of 1979-in favor of Martin. Martin lasted until the end of the season before departing for Oakland, then Dick Howser moved onto the hot seat. A year later, after winning the most regular-season games in baseball (103, vs. 59 losses), Howser...
...troops who went to Korea got a muted version of the welcome. But then came America's longest, strangest war. From that one, in Viet Nam, the boys came home alone, mostly one by one. Sometimes they would arrive in the middle of the night, almost as if they were sneaking back. It was an abrupt, surreal transition?36 hours earlier, they had been in Nam, humping through that alien place with too much firepower and confusion and moral responsibility on their backs. Then they were plucked out of their bizarre yearlong excursion, set down in commercial jetliners, the stewardesses...