Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pace. Its harbor at Abidjan, the capital, handles the world's third largest coffee crop, the fourth biggest cocoa output. Behind the docks is a booming city of 200,000, which for European charm and modern creature comforts matches anything in Africa. Superb restaurants offer French food (at outlandish prices), and towering construction cranes cut the skyline as sleek little skyscrapers of reinforced concrete and glass-all air-conditioned-rise story by story in the tropical...
...husband's easy acquiescence. All through the 1920s Auguste had taught mechanical engineering at the University of Brussels, but his first love was always the free-ballooning he did with his twin brother Jean. After years of practice in conventional balloons, the tall, scrawny professor with his outlandish head of wispy white hair, designed his own gasbag, his own spherical, airtight gondola, squeezed into the risky contraption one morning in 1931 and climbed 51,775 ft. over Augsburg, Bavaria-almost two miles higher than any airplane had yet flown. Just a year later Professor Piccard soared aloft...
...Crimson's sick list, which reached outlandish proportions for the Army game, has dwindled somewhat. Tim Taylor, out for two weeks with a charley horse, will probably return to action tonight, and Chris Norris is back at full strength. Captain Dave Grannis and Dave Johnston have had time to recover from the flu attacks that have laid them low. Ike Ikauniks' heel injury is still painful, but he will take his regular turn...
...Chinese Communists are ahead, capitalizing on their racial similarities and on large colonies of local Chinese. While Russian diplomats and technicians try to live in American-style comfort, Peking's agents sleep 40 in a barracks, eat native food. Avoiding the Soviets' impractical showcase gifts (example: an outlandish hotel on the outskirts of Rangoon), the Red Chinese have promised to build the Burmese a mill to make paper from bamboo, erected small textile and plywood plants in Cambodia...
...seemed to date. Then would come John's friends-poets, artists, actors, M.P.s, and a generous sampling of the House of Lords-chatting and advising. Finally, John himself, bearded and majestic, would sweep in, his headgear-whether a beret or black Homburg or battered trilby-cocked at some outlandish angle. He would stay only an hour or so. "Very exhausting, all that," he would say, and be off to his favorite pub-knowing full well that once again he was the talk of the London art world...