Word: freak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring was not an Indian summer, said Brooks, but a freak of nature sandwiched between the last cold spell and the next. It should flee this afternoon before an onslaught of the usual wintry showers...
Perhaps the most flagrant example of how poor is "Streetcar's" direction is in the final moments, where a doctor and a matron take Blanche to an asylum. The scene lost most of its power when these two characters walked in looking like something out of a freak show and provoked a loud guffaw from the audience...
...freak farm accident in Castle-blayney two years ago, Cyril Morrison, nine-year-old son of an Irish farm worker, got himself pinned between a tractor and a stone wall. The accident splintered the boy's jaw and sent a knifelike sliver slicing across the base of his tongue. It cut the tongue off close to the roots...
William A. Heamann, director of the dining hall, said that the huge pileup was a freak, and probably would not occur again...
Served With Skill. Zanuck breaks up this grueling routine with three-day weekends, occasional flights in season to Sun Valley, where he skis expertly, and four-week vacations on the Riviera mingling with the international set ("They're freaks to me, and I'm a freak to them...