Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unidentified individual scrawled in magic marker on the message board of Simon's Canaday dorm room door, "Immoral E-Mail Freak...
...closet Republican 'cause I do have conservative blood running through my veins but I just can't get warmed up to any of the Republicans. Social issues, I think the Republicans are just too conservative, and I can't deal with the Christian right, they really just freak me right out.... Pat Buchanan I think is totally frightening. I think Bob Dole is too old. I think he's kind of a neat old guy, like if he was your father or something.... And I don't love Clinton, but I can't not vote.... I really like there...
...back on a boat manned by cool teachers (John Savage and Caroline Goodall) and a studly, charismatic captain (Jeff Bridges). While learning discipline and the finer points of ocean sailing, they also study their ABCs. And of course, they discover friendship, sex and alcohol. Unfortunately, disaster ensues. A freak storm sinks the boat, killing four, and the coast guard blames the father figure. You can guess what happens next...
Traditionally, biologists believed that life is a freak--the result of a zillion-to-one accidental concatenation of molecules. It follows that the likelihood of its happening again elsewhere in the cosmos is infinitesimal. This viewpoint derives from the second law of thermodynamics, which predicts that the universe is dying--slowly and inexorably degenerating toward a state of total chaos. Life bucks this trend only because it is a statistical fluke...
...After the discovery of 51 Pegasi, everyone wondered if it was a freak, a one-in-a-million observation. The answer is no. Planets aren't rare after all." --San Francisco State University astronomer Dr. Geoffrey W. Marcy after announcing his identification, with Dr. Paul Butler, of two new planets in a far off galaxy which seem to confirm the plebian quality of our own solar system...