Word: unorthodox
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...beat since the early 1950s, when he covered Chicago's underworld as a pavement-pounding police reporter, first for the Chicago Tribune and then the Chicago Sun-Times. During that period he cultivated unrivaled sources on both sides of the law. Smith also became known for the unorthodox tactics he used in his dogged pursuit of the Mob, which included crashing gangland soirees. When Smith showed up uninvited at a $20,000 wedding reception for the daughter of Sam ("Mooney") Giancana, the reputed Mafia chieftain pleaded for privacy. "Look at that kid," said Giancana, pointing...
...heap. Not that they are all pat rhetoric, it's simply that no real market exists for them. The political mood of the country is so staid and complacent that there is little interest in critiques which forcefully challenge American society or even go so far as to suggest unorthodox remedies for the evil of the Indochina...
...student radicals-has been less successful than he hoped when he opened the school. He has had more success in organizing than in training organizers. His most famous student, Cesar Chavez, seems to be an exception to the rule. As for Alinsky's tactics: they are at times notoriously unorthodox. He once forced the city administration of Chicago to live up to its commitments to the Woodlawn ghetto community organization by threatening to have his people occupy all the toilets and urinals in O'Hare Airport...
Mendel's ideas were so unorthodox that they were ignored for 35 years. But by the time the Mendelian concept was rediscovered at the turn of the century, scientists were better prepared for it. They already suspected that genetic information was hidden inside pairs of tiny, threadlike strands in cell nuclei called chromosomes, or colored bodies (for their ability to pick up dyes). During cell division they always split lengthwise, thereby giving each daughter cell a full share of what was presumed to be hereditary material...
...Nixon has been exasperated by Democrat Mills' opposition to the Administration plan for sharing federal revenues with the states; he also resents Mills' undertaking personal diplomacy in the Japanese textile matter, though both Secretary of State William Rogers and National Security Assistant Henry Kissinger favored Mills' unorthodox solution. No good, said Nixon, who reportedly feels that the restrictions obtained by Mills do not protect U.S. textile interests sufficiently. Now Nixon's men think they have found a way around Mills...