Word: outlandishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cozy nearby bar to haggle price and delivery with the bootlegger or his agent. Some tires are stolen. Others come from pre-Pearl Harbor stocks of crooked dealers who did not list them on OPA's inventory forms, hid them in cellars, attics or backwoods garages. Prices are outlandish: from $30 to $60 for a Chevrolet-sized tire (6.00 x 16) which once sold...
...only world that Americans believed in or cared about, was the U.S. The rest of mankind was in an American sense, unreal. The American might-and did-throng the tourist spots like London and Paris, "discover" Bali or the Dalmatian Coast, but he could never quite believe that these outlandish foreign parts could have a real connection with his world...
...William's drastic demand came at the end of a week filled with reports of novel and outlandish abuses...
Premier Hermann Jönasson of Iceland thought Icelandic conditions last week were approaching the outlandish. If 15,000,000 soldiers were dumped in London, said he, it would not be any worse off than Iceland is now. Further, the British-American occupation has upped living costs for Iceland's residents 70%, disrupted the island's foreign trade, upset many an Icelandic lass. (Last week four U.S. Marines got 10 to 20 years in Portsmouth (N.H.) prison for rape committed in Iceland.) Nevertheless Premier Jönasson was still anxious to cooperate...
...Greece, seagoing barges at the Danube's mouth. Correspondents had seen Rumania's Puppet Premier General Ion Antonescu stage a ceremonial farewell for German troops faring southeastward. The Greek islands had been seized. German torpedo boats had appeared in the Aegean, and Nazi "tourists" in their outlandish, paper-stiff civvies had appeared in Syria. The German-French agreement (see p. 27), officially opening Syria to the Nazis, had been signed and sealed...