Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biography of Warsaw's new man on horseback is full of curious twists...
When icicles hang by the wall and blood is nipped and ways be foul, when the Great Lakes freeze into ice packs the size of Rhode Island and shipping is stilled, then folks in the Midwest are moved to fish through the ice, a curious, seasonal madness for which there is no known cure except spring...
...above the babble of noise as minor government officials shouted their need for more gasoline coupons, newspaper vendors protested that they sold only Islamic papers, two men arrested for fighting resumed their fight, and a hysterical couple wailed that their daughter was missing. The setting was appropriate for the curious questioning that began: "Why have you been arrested...
...Afterward, NBC's Linda Ellerbee, mad as a wet hen, complained on the air about "the controlled scene," the "sort of official line" she had heard, and the welcome home-type questions-instead of the presumably sharp ones she would have asked. Over on CBS, Morton Dean was curious as to why only 41 of the 52 hostages were present. Dean demanded of the CBS man on the scene whether it was true, as Dean had been told in Wiesbaden but hadn't been able to confirm, that some of the hostages weren't speaking to others...
...have only idle speculation and prolonged delay to offer you. You see, the women's hoop squad was to call in the story from a near-by city phone booth collect after the match en route to catching a Broadway show (Annie, for those of you who are curious...