Word: unorthodox
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Crimson coach Loyal Park then followed with a somewhat unorthodox move, ordering intentional walks issued to the next two batters. With the bases loaded, Warren Chellman delivered a two-run single, and a sacrifice fly followed that, giving Army an 8-5 bulge. Harvard's last-ditch rally in the bootom of the inning then fell short when Leon Goetz bounded out with the tying and winning runs on base...
Samaritanism is not in the regular line of duty at Treasury, but the U.S. is willing to try unorthodox tactics these days to pressure General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte into loosening up his regime. Chile needs cash: this year payments of principal and interest on its foreign debt will total $800 million, or 43% of the country's expected export earnings, and the economy is barely limping along (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Yet few outside lenders have been willing to help out in the face of international condemnation-most recently, by the United Nations Human Rights Commission-of detention and torture...
...final balloting, though, that valuable service to Labor's cause may not have been enough. A notoriously unorthodox administrator, Foot has been a Cabinet minister only since 1974 and has never held any of the top portfolios normally considered essential background for No. 10. Beyond that, Foot was thought to be especially vulnerable in a general election campaign against Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher. In one Sunday Times poll, only 7% of the Labor voters named Foot as their first choice to be Prime Minister; 33% found him "not acceptable." Callaghan, on the other hand, was the first choice...
...very serious about it," Brown said of his candidacy for president, soon after he announced. "And while it may strike some as a bit unorthodox that a person in my position and age should be running, I think it is the virtue of my candidacy...
Apparently, Brown's candidacy did not strike that many people as unpleasantly unorthodox-without campaigning, he finished higher in the Gallup Poll than either Henry Jackson or Morris Udall...