Word: askew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this? What do you want?" "Resign! Resign!" shouted the crowd. One student clutched him by the arm and asked: "How long do we suffer at your hands?" The Premier slapped his face, then grabbed him by the waist and called police to take him away. Hair rumpled and necktie askew, Menderes raised his arms again and shouted: "Why don't you kill me?" "No, we don't want to kill you. Resign! Resign!" yelled the crowd. "Then kill me," cried Menderes, placing his right hand over his heart...
...earlier book, Someone Like Von (TIME, Dec. 28, 1953), Author Dahl specializes in the horror of normality. The eleven lethal short stories in this collection open on the most humdrum level, with neither a piece of furniture nor a part of speech out of place. Gradually, things get askew: the lovable baby begins to look peculiar; the cat sleeping in the sun opens an almost human eye; the corpse in the hospital is not quite as dead as it looks...