Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General suddenly stopped his random pacing and walked over to the topographical map on the wall. There, on the curious, pudgy, hatted, east-facing profile that is Tunisia, he could at a glance see the complexion of his own battle and of the whole campaign...
...retired Italian laborer with a bright red rash, recently treated in Boston City Hospital,* was a curious and fascinating case to many doctors - especially cancer researchers. He was apparently the first clinical case of egg-white disease, an ailment previously produced only in laboratories by feeding experimental subjects an inordinate amount of raw egg white (or a chemical extracted from it, avidin...
Nevertheless, the concert was given. Frantically tapping Charlotte's resources until they rang hollow, the Clevelanders fished together a curious assortment of instruments and scores and sat down to play in such costumes as were handy. The program consisted of three substitutions (out of four numbers). It all went off very well...
Among the many things that Darlan's death changed, one was the world standing of General Giraud. It was a slow and curious transition, and it was not all brought about by Giraud himself. Partly because of his own predilections and tendencies toward authoritarian ways, more because of the still cloudy policy of the U.S., the stench of Darlan along with his mantle seemed to shift to Giraud. Did he, Giraud, not harbor and use the same Vichyites whom Darlan had placed or kept in power? So, for weeks, it seemed to the world...
...shopkeepers in Mexico, coolies in the fields around Chungking, businessmen in Rio, ranchers in Australia, men and women in London pubs, U.S. war-workers and farmers and doctors and retailers, asking, "What do you want in your postwar world?" And the answers, as you will see, came with a curious, simple dignity and consistency...