Word: askew
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Even when it comes, recognition has sometimes been careless and absentminded, casually askew. In Carew's playroom is a 2-ft.-high trophy-the Joe Cronin Award-all polished wood and gleaming brass. The American League presented it to the great lefthanded hitter in recognition of his fourth consecutive batting championship. On top of the trophy stands the likeness of a batter -a righthanded batter...
...been equally active. The Save Our Children coalition attracted some 10,000 people to the Miami Beach Convention Hall last month for a "God and Decency Rally." More than $140,000 has been raised in contributions, some from as far away as Southern California and Texas. Florida Governor Reubin Askew is supporting the movement. Orthodox Jews and the Catholic hierarchy, concerned about their private schools, have come out firmly against the ordinance. The Rev. F. William Chapman, pastor of Bryant's church, insists he would burn down his parochial school "rather than permit a homosexual to teach here...
Something about a '60s revival seems preposterous; the time was in so many ways junky and brutal, askew in its frame-beginning in November 1963 and ending, belatedly, in Watergate and the last choppers out of Saigon...
...many ways, the papers were wrong about Lindbergh from the start. Somehow the myth was always askew; up until his death from cancer on Maui in 1974, Lindbergh remained elusive, difficult. Far from being merely a sort of hayseed genius of mechanics, he was the son of a populist Republican Minnesota Congressman and a schoolteacher, whose father, Charles Land of Detroit, was a distinguished dentist who invented porcelain caps for teeth. Lindbergh had lived in Washington, D.C., and studied at the University of Wisconsin until he dropped out midway through his sophomore year to take a course in flying...
...hope of avoiding the sort of ambassador he had criticized during his campaign, Carter asked Florida Governor Reubin Askew to chair a 20-person panel that would review potential ambassadors. Its members include Democratic Elder Statesmen Dean Rusk and Averell Harriman, Republican William Scranton and a sprinkling of academics and authors. For the past month, panel members have been meeting at the State Department in great secrecy, sifting a list of 400 names submitted by members of Congress, the foreign policy community and Carter's staff. Key criteria: foreign experience, language skills and "special considerations," a category that includes...