Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the general public, unabashed, continues to read Alice by the millions. Distinguished mathematicians revel in the "logic" of its nonsense; psychologists acclaim it as a brilliant Freudian freak; politicians, editors and divines habitually use it to score points against their opponents; earnest translators bend to the task of rendering it into foreign nonsense...
What Now? Hundreds of other U.S. employers watched all this uneasily. Most of them had shrugged off Jimmy Petrillo's royalty on phonograph records (TIME, Nov. 20) as a lamentable freak. But if the coal industry began paying royalties into the treasury of the United Mine Workers, labor royalties would be a freak no longer. Other unions would soon be asking for royalties on automobiles, furniture, shoes and a thousand other manufactured products...
Once it seemed that old Referee Misfortune was always putting him in the penalty box. As Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard made his way up from the kid rinks of Montreal to the pro Canadiens, he first broke a leg, then an arm, then a leg. Now the Canadiens' freak left-handed right wing, he has shed his bad luck but kept his knack for breaking things. This week he broke the National Hockey League's goal-scoring record...
October. In Cincinnati, the Procter & Gamble research department furrowed its collective brow over a freak bar of Ivory Soap that would not float...
...Oklahoma, in the U.S. bonanza belt where anything can happen, hundreds of farmers last week were marketing the last of a freak crop worth $4 million. The crop: mung beans...