Word: unorthodox
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...known nature of Communist regimes, it is foolhardy to count on uprisings. It is right to make use of militant anti-Communists wherever they are-but it is impossible for the U.S. to achieve a major policy objective in a war by proxy. It is fine to use unorthodox and imaginative methods-but wrong to place essentially military decisions in the hands of amateurs...
...skin eruptions, muscle and joint pains, and high fever-the devilish collection of leprosy-caused symptoms known as lepra reaction. In a last-ditch effort to ease his pain and that of five similarly afflicted patients, Israeli Dermatologists Felix Sagher and Jakob Sheskin decided last November to try an unorthodox remedy: thalidomide...
...number four, left-hander Terry Robinson baffled Bob Bruce with his unorthodox style, 6-1, 6-1. Richie Friedman, another lefty, whipped George Connell, 6-2, 6-2. Davis (six), a Crimson sophomore with a big attack, found his range yesterday...
...matter. First, it flatly denied the smut peddlers' contention that the 1st and 14th Amendments guaranteeing freedom of speech and press gave them a right to sell obscene material. Second, the court held that the Constitution does guarantee freedom for ideas "having even the slightest redeeming social importance-unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion." The court defined obscenity as material "utterly without redeeming social importance," and set up as its test "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals...
Many of the generals complained bitterly. But Reid had one tough soldier on his side-Brigadier General Elias Wessin y Wessin, 40, the army's tank commander, who holds the unorthodox notion that military men should stick to military pursuits. With Wessin y Wessin's backing, Reid pushed some officers into plush retirement, shipped others to overseas posts or out to the boondocks. Reid himself took over as secretary of the armed forces and sprinkled the army staff with U.S.-trained officers...