Word: freak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunny day last July, Mechanic Billy Smith, 25, went on the job to reline a steel furnace at the U.S. Pipe & Foundry Co. in Decoto, Calif., south of Oakland. Overhead a giant hook dangled from a traveling crane. In a freak accident, the hook crashed down on Billy Smith's right leg and severed it just above the knee. For three hours and 35 minutes, Billy Smith's leg was kept with his body only by a two-inch-wide ribbon of skin...
...freak goal, deflected by a Quincy halfback, gave Lowell a 1 to 0 edge in the third period of a tight soccer game. In the afternoon's other soccer match the Eliot and Adams booters fought to a scoreless...
...last year's Wesleyan encounter, for instance, a Cardinal squad that did not manage to win a game all season long gave the varsity a tremendous battle before bowing, 1 to 0, on a freak head by inside John Hedreen...
Still regarded by some as an unqualified genius and despised by others as a hopeless misfit, the Advanced Placement Sophomore is at least no longer the side-show freak he was in 1955. That fall the first two incoming students were admitted to Sophomore Standing. The 55 A.P. Sophomores this year occupy a definite, if not always uncomplicated, position in the academic picture, and they usually find out soon enough that they are no longer extraordinary...
Bouncing back from his freak disqualification loss at Brown, Foster defeated Yale's highly regarded Hardy Will, 9 to 6. The other top Yale men--123-pounder Andy Fitch and heavyweight Bing Sherrill--picked up wins, although Sherrill had a hard battle before beating the varsity's Ted Robbins on a 9-7 decision...