Word: out-of-the-way
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...steady if not spectacular sales week after week, and a widening circle of quietly unanimous recognition for its unique excellences. In the three months since it came out, Anthony Lewis' Gideon's Trumpet has already established itself as that kind of book. It is not an out-of-the-way literary curiosity but something in some ways tougher to bring off: a sound, literate, readable introduction to an important though difficult subject-in this case, the changing philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court during the last quarter century...
...Florida's Dade County (Miami) supplies 25% of the state's gasoline-tax revenue, gets back only 4% of this for highway construction; the county has 1,000,000 people, but not one state-supported park or beach. In many states, four-lane highways connect small, out-of-the-way towns, while metropolitan areas choke on inadequate roads...
...Victorian piety and have shown that their passion for nature was closer to the scientific quests of Darwin than to unqualified love for small dogs and flowers. Now the U.S.'s first exhibition of Daubigny, some 82 oils, prints, and drawings, is on view at an out-of-the-way but ambitious institution, the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh...
...once-French Congo. Trouble began when, implementing the Addis Ababa agreement, Egypt, Algeria, Ethiopia and Sudan barred South African aircraft from overflying their territories. S.A.A. rerouted all its flights over Libya. But then Libya also joined the air blockade. Fortnight ago S.A.A. inaugurated a carefully prepared, out-of-the-way alternate route around West Africa's bulge, via Brazzaville (which so far has not joined the ban), Luanda, capital of Portuguese Angola, and Las Palmas in the Spanish Canary Islands (see map). The "apartheid route" takes about 900 miles and two hours longer to Europe, costs an estimated...
...talk before reducing it to an evening's reading. Our overseas correspondents file 975,000 words a month. Most of the words come from our 43 regular staff correspondents abroad, the rest from our valued, though little-sung, 120 part-time correspondents (or "stringers") in such out-of-the-way places as Zanzibar, Sarawak, Macao and Katmandu...