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...inability to latch on--to his wife or jobs or American life. Somehow he was never bequeathed the necessary ambition or stamina. Because he has no roots, he travels, and Notes is full of encounters with odd characters that evoke a bittersweet mixture of sympathy and contempt. The strangest of the lot is Mr. Blue, an aging door-to-door salesman still capable of doing 50 push-ups on request, who lives with a six-foot woman gymnastics teacher. But Exley also makes more "ordinary" encounters memorable. And the web of brawls begun over football arguments, debauched weekends, overnight stays...
...contain was a strange tale of CIA derring-do: the attempted raising of a sunken Soviet submarine from the floor of the Pacific Ocean. But when Jack Anderson broke the news on a radio show last week and forced his cautions colleagues into print with their versions, the strangest tale was not the underwater espionage ballet, but the story of how the CIA convinced 11 respected news organizations to withhold, rather than distribute, the news...
...least the searchers were sure that they knew where she had been. In keeping with the bizarre nature of the entire episode, the latest chapter involved a radical athletics director named John V. Scott who had once been employed by Oberlin College in Ohio, and-the strangest touch of all-Bill Walton, the talented, eccentric 6-ft. 11-in. basketball center of the Portland Trail Blazers...
...astonishing that in a sport whose devoted followers can recall such trivia as Fenton Mole's lifetime batting average, the name Moe Berg seems all but forgotten. Casey Stengel called him "the strangest fellah who ever put on a uniform." The strange thing was that Berg played major league baseball at all. Unlike Stengel, who it is said became a ballplayer after discovering that he was a lefthanded dentistry student in a world of righthanded dental equipment, Berg was suited to do just about anything. He had an IQ that could not have been too far behind his career...
...fascisti are Verdi caricatures who can be deflated by a phonograph blaring out the Internationale from the bell tower in the town's main square as Mussolini begins a speech; the worst they do to the perpetrator is give him a humiliating dose of castor oil. The strangest and most wonderful things happen in the city of Amarcord, but they are all good things: A great ocean liner sails by the coast at night, lit up like it was sailing out of an electric forest; the whole population of the town piles into its boats and waits for the ship...