Word: out-of-the-way
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During one of those trips, he was treated to a good illustration of the fact that copies of TIME are likely to turn up in just as many out-of-the-way spots as TIME'S correspondents. On an assignment in the Bay Islands, MaCoy arrived tired after a hard day. He got a room at the hotel with a window overlooking the town square, and settled down in bed. He was almost asleep when he heard a loud voice outside. MaCoy walked over to the window. In the square he saw "a man reading aloud the last issue...
...collection of such esoteric tomes is not accidental. The Farmington Plan was proposed to provide out-of-the-way research materials for libraries throughout the country. Under the program, libraries cooperate in their book-buying campaigns so that at least one copy of every book published outside the United States is bought by some library in this country...
...story of a brutish man, spared from crucifixion in place of Jesus, who carried the memory of Golgotha through the rest of his life. Only a brief sample of Lagerkvist, it nevertheless commanded respect. Two other foreign novels, hard to classify, showed skill with out-of-the-way locales. Edgar Mittelholzer's Shadows Move Among Them dealt with a highly unconventional missionary in British Guiana. From Haiti came The Pencil of God, by Pierre Marcelin and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin, a fascinating study of the power of voodoo...
Scientific Monthly, that the primitives were the first to come, and that their descendants survived in out-of-the-way places...
...might guess, it's difficult to keep things going in the little out-of-the-way shack where they all gather. One of the bandits in a pretty sadistic character who chases Sue and takes pot shots at the little baby. But the bad men finally are killed. And all in all, "Rawhide" is pretty good fun, although it may tire non-devotees of the horse opera...