Word: outlandishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a pitcher seems well on the way toward hurling a no-hit game, players and fans go to outlandish lengths to avoid mentioning it. They keep fingers crossed and pretend nothing unusual is occurring. It is an old superstition; they are loth to do anything that might change luck...
...seems to me a primary political principle that wherever you have something which is universally needed, but which is governed as a monopoly, that monopoly should be taken over by the state." Nor did it seem outlandish to most Britons that the 25,000 members of the National Association of Schoolmasters should petition the Board of Education to abolish Britain's ancient and exclusive public schools, as "unsuitable for democracy...
...permitted, to pick Negro as well as white players. One of his programs, Jump Time, clings to the bouncier forms of jazz. Another, Pan American Hot Spot, has a Latin accent. Farthest off the beaten track is Secret Seven, a working laboratory for some of Scott's more outlandish ideas, out of which in a few weeks may come a more imposing program: The CBS Academy of Hot Music...
...presence the huge cluster of monasteries atop the Holy Mountain, where bearded, black-cowled priests withdraw from worldly pleasures in the spiritual home of the Greek Orthodox Church. Even female cats and dogs and beasts of the field are barred, "so that their mating may not furnish an outlandish spectacle to souls which detest all forms of indecency...
...Eastern languages was something of a freak. It is not surprising, therefore, that in his graduate days Edwin Reischauer should have found himself at the head of a one-man class in Chinese. It is still less surprising, that, with the present demand for men versed in the outlandish tongues of the Orient, the freak of yesterday should suddenly be transformed into the expert of almost unique utility today. He who once imbibed the cup of knowledge in solitary splendor now dispenses its to some sixty would-be Intelligence men, interpreters, and Far Eastern experts...