Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rubia's proposal was grated with a certain amount of 'Gee. that's really neat." George W. Brandenburg, associate director of Harvard's High Energy Physics Laboratory, said yesterday. "It was an outlandish idea, though you had to admit it was worth...
...when infighting is unavoidable, even useful, and when it is destructive. F.D.R., Truman, Ike, J.F.K. and for a time L.B.J. were good managers and motivators of people. Nixon's management methods brought us Watergate. Ford and Carter were weak as people managers. Reagan presided over some outlandish administrative arrangements last year, but the machinery is now running better. An awareness of gaps in his own knowledge and concerns should enter the President's criteria for his staff appointments. Self-knowledge without self-doubt is admittedly...
Harvard's Scott Fusco is going through a phase which may have fans assuming that he'll score consistently at his present outlandish rate. Against B.U. his his trick was virtually obscured by the sea of Crimson goals. In any case, multiple-goal games are nothing new for last year's Ivy Rockie of the Year...
...outlandish as some of his locker room antics might seem nothing could rival the time that Cash showed up at training camp with his entire head shaved save for a patch of hair that formed the letter. H "Unless, of course, it was the time he decided to have a Yale bulldog, transfixed by a knife tattooed...
...pamphlet, yet on the stump he has come across as brainy and out of touch. His defensive response to a flurry of wimp jokes--he launched an ad campaign stressing that he had volunteered for the Marines during the Korean War--only accelerated his electoral decline. So did his outlandish last-ditch salvos at Thompson, like equating the incumbent with the Ayatollah Khomeini several weeks...