Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeared: Dasch and Burger went off to hard labor. In the courtyard, in the drizzle, six sheeted bodies on stretchers were loaded in the ambulances-four in one, two in the other. Steel-helmeted soldiers, with bayonets and machine guns, kept a little crowd of the curious away. The ambulances swung out slowly on the wet pavement, took the bodies to the Walter Reed Hospital for autopsy...
...Washington Post recalled that Ham Fish's relations with the Caribbean dictator had taken some curious turns. In 1937 after several thousand Haitian farmers were massacred by Dictator Trujillo's soldiers on the Dominican side of the border, Ham Fish arose in Congress and said: "This is the most outrageous atrocity that has ever been perpetrated on the American continent...
Arthritic deformities-hopelessly gnarled hands or clumsily stiffened joints where two bones have calcified together-"are too often due to neglect" and can largely be avoided. Treatment: simple exercises and a simple splint worn for part of each day. Warm dips, as in old-age rheumatism, are helpful. Curious fact: pregnancy usually brings temporary relief to arthritic women...
...does inadvertently achieve a curious cumulative impression of famous and infamous faces under the wear & tear of time. Hitler ages visibly from the bedraggled but hard-driving Chancellor (1933) to the double-chinned, snappish war lord (1941). Bombast and ostentatious health fade from Mussolini's naked dome after the debacle in Greece. From the present's point of view, Laval looks untrustworthy from the start. Irony stalks beside Winston Churchill and Admiral Darlan as they review French sailors together. The tread of marching armies forecasts the kind of fight they will make later on-the Germans, thudding, dour...
...years later the Sixth Symphony brought him further official plaudits. Outside Russia, music lovers were more critical. Shostakovich's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies combined spontaneous gusto, originality and nobility, with a curious taste for trite themes and musical horseplay, as if the composer were constantly fighting down an impulse to throw musical custard pies...