Word: freak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because Diegel had been the most brilliant player in the Ryder Cup matches at Moortown, and because he is something of a golfing freak, the crowds at Muirfield followed him throughout the tournament. His swing is jerky, the face of his club twists sharply at the moment of impact. He lunges at the ball, moves his feet. When he putts, his forearms are parallel to the ground, the shaft perpendicular, the left elbow pointing to the hole, the hands within breathing distance of his stomach in a posture as of prayer. Few tyros try to copy his style, though perhaps...
...game itself was listless and, because of the numerous purposely imposed penalties, dragged out to undue length. Florida had the advantage over its Northern rival threatening to score several times but it was always repulsed. The only score of the game came in the second quarter on a freak play. After a long exchange of punts, in which A. W. Huguley '31, kicking for Florida, had a decided edge on M. J. Finlayson '32, the Michigan booter, the ball was deep in Michigan territory. On an attempted kick, Finlayson spiraled the ball over his head and it fell back...
Most important trumps in the game were the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga. The Lexington, part of the defending Blue fleet, was put out of action early, partly owing to a freak of the weather. Black Admiral William Veazie Pratt shrewdly detached the Saratoga from his fleet, sent it hundreds of miles to the south and west. Not until it was ready to attack did the Blue scouting cruisers and destroyers discover the whereabouts of the Black fleet's chief threat. By then it was too late. In the early morning the Saratoga pushed her bow into the wind...
Would it not be a great blessing to allow the Junior Prom quietly and unmolestedly to join the Dodo, who has for many years been waiting to receive the aimiable Freak-Dance of the college? A resort to the oxygen of a bedizened ballroom and the hypodermic of exciting music would but for a space postpone that extinction which the poor Prom has long coveted and deserved...
Though Wings Over Europe, by virtue of its lack of sex-appeal and the Wells-Vernian circumstances of its conversational plot, is a freak play, it is also of the kind called "profound." This means that its excitements are cerebral and that spectators, leaving the theatre in their cabs, will be aroused to the point of shouting each other down with explanations of its meanings and with speculations as to what each one would have done, had he or she been the luckless Lightfoot...