Word: freak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ITHACA, N.Y., October 9--There was no upset on Schoellkopf Field here today. The amazed bookies and dismayed homecomers notwithstanding, the Harvard football team's 13 to 12 victory over Cornell today was neither freak nor undeserved. If the two teams played again tomorrow the margin of victory could only increase, for the added poise and confidence that this stunning victory will give the Crimson, plus the vast superiority of the Harvard line, would enable the visitors to win with considerably less excitement that marked this game...
...freak rock fall killed a mountain climbing senior this summer, while a teaching fellow drowned in another accident...
Once a Musicians' Union man was asked if a harmonica was a musical instrument. "Certainly not," he answered. "It's a toy." But what about Larry Adler? "Oh." said the union man, "he's a freak...
...snow in the Alps was unprecedented; there was more of it on the ground in July than at Christmastime. Then, in a meteorological freak, a cold air mass from the north collided over the Alps with a moisture-laden warm air mass from the south, and the resultant rain and snow were more than any river system could handle. The worst Danube flood since the 16th century...
With charts, slide rules and popping eyes, Wall Streeters have spent the last nine months measuring the stock market. To many, the market has seemed a freak: it started to rise just when business began to contract last fall, now towers above anything seen since 1929. Since September, the Dow-Jones industrial average has pushed 25% higher almost without pause, last week rose to a new high of 328.67 before shading off. What made the giant grow? Is there a giant killer lurking around the corner...