Word: outlandishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kansas City also had a veterans' convention last week, with parade, outlandish costumes, drum, corps and sore feet. But at the 49th annual encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans (average age: 72), there was little tipping and no water-squirting. The boys of Santiago Bay, San Juan hill and the Philippines just wanted to sit and bat the breeze about their experiences back...
Down the steep cobbled streets of La Paz, coca-chewing Indians trotted under huge packs of bundled alpaca hides. In the market sun, Indian women in outlandish derby hats and bright-colored skirts haggled over little piles of shelled corn. It was winter, the good time in the Andes. The Indians (who comprise two-thirds of all Bolivians) were not even aware that political storms threatened the peace...
Sudsy daytime serials are easy targets for radio's detractors. But soap operas go on & on because sponsors find them profitable. Last week, an outlandish new jumble of fact & fancy called Wendy Warren and the News (CBS, Mon.-Fri., 12 noon, E.D.T.) tried desperately to vary the formula...
...extremely rare occasions." Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens was asked to design, a memorial for her grave.* Adams tried to lose himself in the writing of his monumental History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison, and in a series of jaunts to the most outlandish parts of the world he could find...
...Argentina's Government House, bigwigs crowded around a table in the glittering Salon Blanco. The Argentine Cabinet was there, along with U.S. Ambassador George Messersmith and President Juan Domingo Peron. But the star of the show was a private U.S. citizen with an outlandish name, Sosthenes Behn, razor-sharp president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. For the third time in five years, he was giving U.S. businessmen a lesson on how to liquidate foreign investments at a profit...