Word: out-of-the-way
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Indications of the babe's presence are manifest in out-of-the-way spots, too. He was blandly revealed in Nevada by a deposition of Senator McCarran's where the law-maker admitted to accepting favors from hostelries on a scale not seen since several bureaucrats were heaped with aggrieved indignation for doing precisely the same thing a few years past. Chirrups from Formosa, concerning the future speedy collapse of Mao's regime under the blows of Chiang's battalions, are another instance...
...often meant going without meals himself. Yet, childless for 43 years of marriage, they both loved children, and their greatest happiness came each year at Christmas time when Adrien was asked to don his red suit and play Santa at the store and at private parties and small, out-of-the-way shops...
...pocketbook, the music lover can buy 128 complete recorded operas, from Mozart to Gershwin (the biggest U.S. opera companies can mount only about 20 a season). He can have song cycles by Mahler, rare tone poems by Strauss, tropical novelties by Villa-Lobos, and scores of other out-of-the-way pieces, many of them complete strangers...
...pulling together the material on political conventions and elections, the team that worked on the booklet found a mass of out-of-the-way information about our political parties and their operation, past & present. As you may know, the Constitution says nothing about parties and conventions and there has been no great body of federal law to regulate them. As a result, the parties grew like Topsy, developing their own rules as they went along...
...Francisco at night. He finds that when the lights come on, streets and buildings have a special "atmosphere not found in the cold, harsh light of day." Joe is not much interested in painting people. "You don't find people around the street lamps -especially in out-of-the-way places. It'd be phony to put them in. A guy and a gal would distract from the painting-they'd look all gooey and drippy...