Word: out-of-the-way
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...President William Schuman, "reaffirms [the school's] sense of responsibility toward the music of its own time." Last week the festival opened in Juilliard's University Heights auditorium, 65 blocks north of Carnegie Hall; the concert suggested nevertheless that modern American music is no longer as out-of-the-way as it used...
...presidential campaign, Kubitschek used the same methods that had won him the governorship: go to the voters, hit even the little, out-of-the-way towns that other candidates skip, invite questions, have an answer for everything. He chartered a DC-3, fitted it out as a combination office, bedroom and conference room, covered 100,000 miles in the most strenuous search for votes in the annals of Brazilian politics. His wife Sarah organized women's J-J (Juscelino-Jango) clubs throughout the country, made speeches on TV, kept up her husband's morale with her cheerful, unflagging...
...Connor went in for petty capers. Whenever the cupboard was bare, she would call two or three of Bobby's cronies to a garage owned by her brother-in-law (who also has a record), and they would go off to rob a drugstore or some small, out-of-the-way shop. Since last June, according to Chicago police, Maggie has probably had a hand in some 100 holdups, has been positively linked to 30. Her working clothes usually included a babushka and, oftentimes, adhesive tape over the five moles...
...Admission of Special Students is always a problem," Dean Miles observed in an interview at his out-of-the-way third-floor office in Farnsworth House. He mentioned the application of a graduate with insufficiently high marks who wanted to be a philosopher as typical of the matters he had to handle. "The lady who wrote this note thought he was deserving because he had been in the Army." Miles said. "The answer was 'no'," he added...
Among U.S. tourists, the hardest hit is the specialist in out-of-the-way restaurants, anxious to show his friends that little place he discovered two years ago last spring. The doorman whistles for a taxi, then sadly reports: "I'm very sorry, monsieur. So many taxi drivers are en vacances." Conveyed to the address by a limousine, hired at three times the normal price, the tourists are apt to find the restaurant tightly shuttered and a big sign saying: "Fermeture annuelle." On the fourth try they may find one open, though the regular chef is "en vacances...