Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farm that kept the breed going. The ruling monarchs were often kinsmen, brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins, whose family relationships were a factor in international diplomacy. In those days, Prince Charles might well have found himself leading to the altar, instead of his charming English bride, some outlandish princess whose charms were more dynastic than bodily, and whose English was rudimentary...
Despite Begin's outlandish utterances, there was a perceptible relaxation by week's end of the fear that the Tammuz raid might set off some new and shocking chain reaction in the Middle East. Egyptian President Sadat had declared that he would remain faithful to the Camp David peace process despite Israel's "intolerable" act. Said Sadat: "We started [the peace movement] and we're not ready at all to give it up." The foreign ministers of the 21-member Arab League issued a tough but predictable resolution condemning the attack, calling for a halt to all U.S. assistance...
...idealized archetype, whose full obnoxious character each empirical individual but partially manifests and only for a brief time. To apprehend the Platonic essence, then, of the utter antithesis to the approved club type, imagine an inarticulate, introverted, morbidly shy sophomore from a small town in the provinces. He wears outlandish ties, dirty sweaters, and baggy pants. Not only lacking a crew cut, he is in bad need of a barber nearly all the time and obviously shaves but rarely. Until he arrived at the university he was educated in mediocre public schools, the whole of life to him lies...
...further information on the means to salvage the economy, the political balance, and the nation in general, Tsongas recommends his own book, expected out this fall. Unlike the Massachusetts Plan, which is dominated by outlandish strategies for better energy use in the Northeast, the Tsongas tome will be a more comprehensive work "to get people to think through, what is a political philosophy...
...high as $10,000 a day, and she is about to sign a $1 million contract with Calvin Klein, who is convinced that he has made "a major statement" with the jeans ads. What is astonishing about these huge sums of money is that although they are outlandish, they are not unheard of. No advertiser wants to make a minor statement, and the major ones run into six or seven figures. Lauren Hutton in 1973 signed an exclusive contract with Revlon. Tiegs has a two-year deal with Sears under which she lends her name to a line of jeans...