Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curious thing about the three official flags is that two of them are incorrectly made. Even the flag pictured on this year's Freshman Catalogue is unofficial. The correct flag should have the word "VERITAS" equally distributed upon three yellow and white books. All the letters are supposed to be drawn with serifs, and this is the reason that the two flags are unofficial. One has no serifs at all, and the ones on the other are too short...
...curious how this feeling communicated itself. Except for the hard knot which is inside some men, courage is largely the desire to show other men that you have it. And so, in a large group, when a majority have somehow signaled to each other a willingness to quit acting, it is very hard indeed not to quit. The only way to avoid it is to be put to shame by a small group of men to whom this acting is life itself, and who refuse to quit; or by a naturally courageous man doing a brave deed...
Hersey was curious to know what these tired, hungry, hard-worked Marines thought about war. "They did not want that valley or any part of its jungle" and yet they willingly went down into it. So he asked what they were fighting for. "They did not answer for what seemed a very long time. Then one of them spoke . . . and for a second I thought he was changing the subject or making fun of me, but ... he was answering my question very specifically. He whispered: 'Jesus, what I'd give for a piece of blueberry pie.' . . . Here...
...austere character there is a curious, flamboyant streak. Somewhere along the way he picked up a German officer's suit of silk underwear, which he wears. His outer clothes are informal: sweater and pants. To his troops he became a familiar and spectacular sight, touring the front line in a tank, his hawk's head in a beret protruding from the turret. Sometimes he wore an Anzac's broad-brimmed field hat, on which he pinned the insignia of all the units fighting under him, including the Greeks. Occasionally he put-putted through...
Author Nichols' study of the curious marriages which men make with their jobs is gratifyingly unsentimental. He is not strong on "characters," in the novelist's traditional sense; but in his quiet, exact registration of the interdependence of men, of processes, of old and new traditions, he all but convinces one that "characters," in that traditional sense, hardly exist in industry; that their human kind is changed even in its essence by the world they work...