Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good to see Sanders in high gear, though. He wears wretched clothes, a moth-eaten beard, and when he sucers, "Women are curious little beasts," or "Love is nonsense. I haven't time for that sort of thing," the entire female audience titters with uncasiness and anticipation...
...Curious soldiers clustered on a New Guinea riverbank. As the late afternoon sunlight slanted through coconut-palm fronds, a raft drifted around the river bend. Small frizzled-haired Papuan natives guided it slowly to shore. Heedless of cries of "Don't bother, we'll get it for you" from the soldiers on the bank, four Australian soldiers aboard the raft slowly gathered up possessions that only a soldier can truly treasure-firearms, rain capes, a few battered odds & ends. As they turned their sunken eyes shoreward, the shouting and chatter of the spectators ceased. The crowd parted...
Argentines are minutely curious about the world. Although newsprint (from the U.S.) is scarce, La Prensa usually carries 32 columns of foreign news-more than any other paper in the world. Four years ago most was European-today New York or Washington has as many datelines as London...
...curious statistic, explained by the fact that Axis planes avoided the 500 Allied fighters concentrated on the bombers, and by the fact that the bombers got seperated from their escort in bad weather. None of the Allied fighters was destroyed...
...curious position. History may call him the first United Nations statesman; a man without power in any country, who has suddenly developed enormous power in all free countries...