Word: freak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action takes place in a sort of freak and side show in Vienna, and is compact and admirably simple...
...against "Ma" Ferguson that the blame should be laid for her freak administration, but rather against the people of Texas who supported her candidature. Mrs. Ferguson in seeking election was actuated by the very real desire to see her impeached husband vindicated. She made her personal grievance the chief plank in her platform. The sentiment of the Texas electorate was stirred, to the quick, and Mrs. Ferguson was elected. Her failure may be regarded as a rather salutary object lesson in the evils attendant upon unthinking balloting...
...stamp with George Washington's face on it (an old New York issue, one of the rarest stamps in the world); the "St. Louis" 20-cent stamp with two bears holding a shield; the one-franc tête bêche stamps (printed upside down); the freak inverted 24-cent U. S. airplane stamps (only one sheet of them got into circulation) and many another scrap of paper that it would be bad luck to throw away if found on some old letters in the attic...
...limbo. A fourth landed on the fairway. The golfer, having now played seven, took 12 for the hole (par 5). He was Robert Gardner, holder of many golf titles, U. S. Walker cup team captain, setting forth to qualify for the national amateur. It was just one of those freak episodes that can happen in golf tournaments, even to champions. He did not qualify...
...card house, ripped through houses, garages. It flooded streets, visited three neighboring towns in its line, then rushed out over the Atlantic. The same evening- On Long Island, along the south shore, the populace marveled at huge bars of blue and yellow light rocketing through the sky-a violent freak electric storm. A little later- At Sea Cliff, on the north shore, grey Long Island Sound suddenly delivered out of its flat bosom a towering column of water that raced ashore with terrific impact, spinning up trees by their roots, cottages by their foundations, dragging wreckage into the Sound...