Word: outlandishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less outlandish and surprising than if Finn MacCool, his long-legged self, had turned around in the middle of his runnin' lep from the Giant's Causeway and said: "The Sassenach are a fine, fair-minded and glorious people...
...inspired many of Rome's bright young men to enter the church, and the mystic fervor with which he communed with God (it was difficult for him to say mass without being transfixed by ecstasy). His humor lay in the bizarre penances he exacted at confession and the outlandish antics with which he humbled his own pride...
...away from the outlandish escapades of the Orphan Annies with a show which would "dramatize the everyday life of ordinary children...
...color and perfume of flowers was real again-Maine's goldenrod, Wisconsin's black-eyed Susan, New Mexico's Indian paintbrush. Suddenly there was nothing outlandish in the thud of a punted football, the rhythm of a dance band, the bright expensive look of department-store windows, and the solid, unshattered buildings. Across the land last week it was hot, and once more the U.S. people could listen with contentment to that most peaceful of all evening music-the tinkling of the lawn sprinklers, turning drowsily in the darkness...
Many an American thinks of a church as a plain, white clapboard rectangle with a steeple and stained-glass windows. He might have difficulty recognizing some of the 3,616 churches now on postwar planning boards. Among the more outlandish designs, most of them reported in this month's Architectural Record: ¶A community church in Carmichael, Calif., which will include a badminton court, tennis court and swimming pool, for the strengthening and immersing of the congregation...