Search Details

Word: freaked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...whereas the country is looking to the future. . . . [Lawson] represents the Services, the technicians of this new age and the aspirations of the younger generation for the postwar world." The Times murmured: "It would be foolhardy for supporters of the Coalition to treat the verdict of Skipton as a freak result lacking any wider significance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Voice | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...ghost-pale savage named Dulipé, who he claimed was Jack Fawcett's son by a Kurikuro Indian woman. Last week a picture of Morel and Dulipé (see cut) reached the U.S. As photographed, Dulipé has all the characteristics of an albino, a not uncommon freak among South American Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Grandson | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Members of the Yale broadcasting station became aware of the operation of the ring when a freak phone connection gave away the bookies' radio network. A month's work gathering information followed before three WOCD officers, two News reporters, and a photographer, joined by the policemen, sledge-hammered in doors to get at the villains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Play Policeman, Trip Up Bookie Ring | 5/12/1943 | See Source »

...three months: Major Kenneth Mc-Cullar of Batesville, Miss., partner with the late Major William Benn in developing low-level skip-bombing (TIME, Jan. 18). Major Benn and Brigadier Generals Kenneth Walker and Howard Ramey were lost in action, but Major McCullar's death was due to a freak accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Irony of War | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

Francisco ("Pancho") Segura from Ecuador turned up in U.S. tennis two years ago as a two-handed freak. By mid-1942 he looked more like a two-handed champion. Every tennis player in the country whistled last July when Segura batted his way through the strong Czecho-Slovakian, Ladislav Hecht. 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. An urchin-like figure with a pigeon-toed slouch and a dark Indian face, Segura addresses a forehand shot as if he were about to kill it with an ax, often whirls so far off the ground that he seems to be swung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Golden Age | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Previous | 270 | 271 | 272 | 273 | 274 | 275 | 276 | 277 | 278 | 279 | 280 | 281 | 282 | 283 | 284 | 285 | 286 | 287 | 288 | 289 | 290 | Next