Word: out-of-the-way
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...state convention in out-of-the-way Wausau, C.I.O. moderates ousted the left-wingers who had run the show since 1937. Out went party-liner Robert Buse, leader of the bloody, 33-week Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, Nov. 11). In a bold sweep, the right-wingers captured all top offices and 15 out of 26 seats on the state council. The new president: Milwaukee's Herman Steffes, right-wing head of U.A.W.'s Local 75 at the Seaman Body division of Nash-Kelvinator...
...thousands of other Filipinos he ranked with the great patriots. The Good Fight is Quezon's autobiography. Earnest, mild in its verdicts, limited in range but now & then surprisingly revealing, it is his profession of faith in the U.S., his story of how a boy from the out-of-the-way Luzon barrio of Baler, Tayabas Province, rose in the world...
...administered by the heads of the legitimate organizations and would contain offices equipped with typewriters, telephones, and mimeograph machines. The central feature of the building--a theatre seating approximately 1000--could be used for films, plays, forums and similar functions. Music and dramatics, long relegated to musty, out-of-the-way auditoriums, would at last be heard and viewed at best advantage. Stress must be laid upon the fact that the building would serve graduate students as well as undergraduates; the Law School Forum and many organizations such as the Philosophy Club, Economics Club, and English Club which are largely...
...custard pie and the quick punch in the nose, of the goon, the stink bomb, the special deputy and the Bronx cheer had never found peace very peaceful. In the midst of their own private postwar fights over wages, rents and nylons, many a U.S. citizen saw nothing out-of-the-way in the United Nations quarrel over Iran...
Four days later police found Iida. He was calmly reading a newspaper account of the murder in an out-of-the-way country inn. Sure, he admitted, he did the job: Nizaemon had refused to let him use his sister's 15,000-yen inheritance. It had taken him, he said, only one stroke of the ax to kill Nizaemon, but rather more to cut off his wife's head. He never had liked her; she had refused to give him more than his regular ration for supper...