Word: freak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle of last month, in short, the wide-screen revolution was looking more and more like an inventory sale; the three-dimensional revolution had still not proven itself to be anything more than a freak show; and Hollywood was in confusion, with production at a standstill...
Playing against the first rough team on the current home stand, the varsity defense was run hard in the opening minutes and allowed Purple attackman Ted Johnson to hit for two quick goals. The locals countered with a freak goal by Chuck Edwards. Williams tallied three minutes later. The varsity hit when attackman Phil Waring took a pass from Ed Curtis and fired in fast and low. Only 115 seconds later, Monk Aiello picked off another pass from Curtis to tie the score. Williams again took the lead, 4 to 3, on a shot from a nearly impossible angle above...
Coach Bruce Munro will try to work in some of his previously injured veterans and find a replacement for midfielder Pete Palches, still alling with a pulled ligament. Returning to action will be Ed Sexton, hurt in an auto accident; Monk Aiello, burned in a freak fire; and jim Telfer, injured on the spring trip...
...should lock those guys in their rooms after every practice," said the fiery coach upon hearing of the loss of two starters. Monk Aiello, diminutive attackman, was burned in a freak blaze Saturday, and defense stalwart Ed Sexton was hurt in a weekend auto accident. Other starters Jim Telfer and Pete Palches are still on the inactive list because of vacation injuries...
...proper idea of personal cleanliness and personal neatness, and I myself never knew when I was to blurt out some unpardonable rudeness." By now, he wanted to rebel against papa, yet he lacked the daring to do so. At Harvard he was looked upon as something of a freak, for there, writes Wiener with a bitterness that the years do not seem to have erased, "a gentlemanly indifference" toward matters of the mind was very much the style. And most disturbing of all was his encounter with antiSemitism. Norbert had been brought up without any sense of Jewish tradition...