Word: freak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rent a building in Boston to hold all the people who wished to attend their massive rallies. One meeting, in Tremont Temple, attracted 4500 people. In fact, the nearly even division of the University in 1952 between Eisenhower and Stevenson marked the first time in history, except for the freak 1912 split, that the Republicans did not overwhelmingly carry the school in the CRIMSON straw poll...
...Associated Press sports writers and broadcasters poll voted the Bucknell "loss" of two downs in the Harvard-Bucknell game the freak play of the year...
...court which released him, "the laughter of those who consider themselves to be at a safe remove from all the wretched, for whom the pain of the living is not real." Moving on to a tiny Swiss village high in the Alps, he found himself regarded as an exotic freak, the only Negro the villagers had ever seen. Daily, the children skipped at his heels, yipping "Neger! Neger!", and Author Baldwin sometimes muttered sourly to himself "exactly as I muttered on the streets of a city these children have never seen, when I was no bigger than these children...
...thought it was an atomic bomb," said Eyewitness Jean Bainville later. It was not that bad, but the freak landslide that hit Nicolet was a sizable disaster. Three people were killed and 15 injured in the collapsing buildings. The property loss was estimated at more than...
...League admissions officials have noted that there is virtually no way of checking on who might indirectly be paying for an applicants final year at prep school. In this case, it was only an application "freak" that brought an apparent violation to light to light...