Word: freaked
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...course, there have always been volcanic eruptions, and the tales of El Nino date back at least to the Spanish conquistadors. Old-timers can point to freak weather occurrences that put the Los Angeles floods to shame, like the 1928 storm that bombarded southwestern Nebraska with hailstones the size of grapefruit. Or the blizzard of 1888 that buried the Eastern Seaboard in snowdrifts the size of four-story buildings. "There is a record set somewhere every day," says Steve Zebiak, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory...
...first pitch he threw resulted in a freak line drive off the elbow of his pitching arm. Johnston was sidelined for three weeks...
Thus began the most unpleasant part of Cooper's time at Harvard. For over a year, her freak back injury made tennis impossible, exercise difficult and sitting painful...
...Pennsylvania company accused of selling machine tools to Iraq was loaded, irrelevantly, with grieving parents of dead U.S. soldiers. A story on forecasting failures at the National Weather Service tried to clinch its case by coaxing tears from a woman whose husband had been killed by a freak storm. Ratings so far are promising, alas...
...Johnny Carson phenomenon will probably never be fully explainable. "The idea that one man, basically unscripted, could last on TV for 30 years -- it's a freak of television," marvels Jeff Sagansky, a former NBC program executive and now president of CBS Entertainment. And like most freak accidents, it probably will never happen again. Carson's retirement is another milestone in the slow withering of the network mass audience. Even if Leno manages to succeed, much of Carson's audience will undoubtedly disperse to other hosts and other shows. TV's late-night living room will never be quite...