Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown scored four of its goals in the first half, and three of these were freak goals of the Harvard fullbacks. The first two came as fullback Steve Mead, attempting to ease the pressure on the Crimson defense, kicked the ball back to goalie Peter Zurchow. But the tiled was muddy, and Zurchow was unable to get to the ball, which trickled into the nets...
...Willie Namath might have said last week, after he threw a desperation pass that a Colt defender bounced volleyball fashion into the arms of Jet Receiver Eddie Bell, who ran for a touchdown and a last-minute 24-20 victory: It's just one of those freak things...
...elusive Castaneda confounds one's expectations: he is no hairy freak, but a voluble Brazilian-Italian given to white shirts, gray suits and highly polished black shoes. He rarely touches coffee-let alone grass-and confesses that he would be "terrified" to take peyote except under Don Juan's guidance. The phrase "drug culture" is ceaselessly bandied about in America. It is a swollen cliché, and not very descriptive either. Culture, as Castaneda would say, is consensus. Instead we have abundant drug use, which is a different matter...
...with his armless hands growing directly out of his shoulders, and he is known, in the cruel world of the carnival, as "Sealo the Sealboy." Norbert P. Terhune is a dwarf, 3 ft. 6 in. tall, billed as "Poo-Bah the Pygmy." Both of them worked for World Fair Freaks and Attractions, a sideshow that toured various Southern county fairs. In the summer of 1969 World Fair was preparing to open in North Bay Village, near Miami, when the local police threatened to prosecute under a 1921 state law against freak shows, which calls...
...Freak shows have been in a long decline-there are only five such shows of any size left-but a number of states still have laws designed to protect citizens from displays of deformity and to protect the deformed themselves from exploitation. Berent and Terhune were not grateful. Along with World Fair, they went to the Florida Supreme Court to argue that the state was interfering with their right to make a living; neither, despite their normal intelligence, had been able to find any other job. By a 6-to-1 vote, the court found: "It may be that certain...