Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noisy carnival with academic and social pretentions. All the members of Boston's growing aristocracy, every significant member of the various New England governments, royalists, patriots, Anglicans, and Calvanists, all attended the great Commencements of the eighteenth century and were followed there by spectacle-seeking hordes. Vending booths and freak shows were set up along the streets in the College vicinity; there were elephants, mermaids, mummies, and mutants, all osten- sibly celebrating Harvard's annual Commencement...
Skippers' marks are always infinitely chaotic and variable. They range from groups 2 to 6 from semester to semester; from A to E in a single marking period. When a Skipper has his moments of success, he sees it as "good luck," a freak communion with a grader, an unexpected compliment. And when he happens to flunk out (with marks like two A's and two E's, his low marks do not faze him at all, since he thinks they are so crazy. He has a moderately unshakable estimate of his own intelligence and a measure of satisfaction with...
...Games. But there he was, laid out by a freak accident six weeks ago, just as he was getting ready to begin his campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination from Ohio. Glenn slipped on a throw rug, while trying to hoist a mirror back onto its tracks in the bathroom of his Columbus apartment, and cracked the left side of his head against the bathtub. The blow injured his inner ear, disrupting the vital apparatus that governs coordination, equilibrium and balance (see MEDICINE). Glenn had hoped that he would recover in time to resign from the Marines and wage...
...spider man in the freak show and the gangling giant on the basketball court may have a common bond. Marfan's syndrome, first recognized in 1896 by French Pediatrician Bernard-Jean Antonin Marfan, is marked by excessive long-bone growth; it gives people elongated arms, legs, fingers and toes, angular heads and faces. One of the surest signs of Marfan's syndrome is a condition known as arachnodactyly-a spidery hand with long, slender fingers of exceptional dexterity. Many such people succumb to some form of heart disease early in life. One suspected Marfan type who escaped this...
These three and some other fresh faces exceeded all expectations at the Millrose Games in New York on Thursday and the BAA meet in Boston Saturday night, but a freak ankle injury to sprint star Aggrey Awori may make December's prediction pure fancy...