Word: freakish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that one of his sons should become an officer. Hap was persuaded to pinch-hit, was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant of infantry in 1907. When he saw Louis Bleriot's English Channel-hopping monoplane on exhibition in Paris in 1909, he didn't even know what the freakish contraption was. When he figured it out, his first.thought forecast the futures of both Hap Arnold and air power. "If one man could do it once, what if a lot of men did it together at the same time?" Two years later, in answer to a War Department call...
Instead it was Chiang who fell on Jan. 21, 1949. Promptly Chiang's successor, Acting President Li Tsung-jen, blatantly betrayed the bankruptcy of Nationalist China by trying to pull one of the most freakish double-steal plays in modern diplomacy. He proposed to the Soviet Union a pact promising elimination of U.S. influence in China-and simultaneously asked the U.S. for a statement of support to assist him in negotiation with Moscow. The State Department's one word for this was "incredible...
...Kansas, farmers reported freakish results. Wheat had fizzled out where early prospects looked promising, had produced well in areas written off as no good. Yield ran from as low as 2 bushels an acre up to 40. The Kansas crop was almost a complete reversal of last year's "miracle wheat," where stunted, scraggly stems had borne unexpectedly huge heads, and the state's estimated 160-million-bushel harvest had turned into 231 million bushels. This year's 251-million-bushel estimate may turn out to be as much as 75 million bushels too high...
Cummings' fame rests on such books as Eimi and The Enormous Room and volumes of poetry written with the freakish punctuation and typography that have become his trademark. His sunny, splashy little portraits and paintings of apple trees in blossom and luminous, leggy nudes are all done with slapdash delight; they have none of the sharpness or strangeness that make his books memorable, infuriating or a bore. Compared with his writings, Cummings' art seems as soft and wholesome as fresh butter...
...spots may be a cause of unseasonably warm weather in the northeastern United States and freakish cold waves sweeping the West, Charles F. Brooks '12, Director of the University's Blue Hill Observatory, told the CRIMSON last night...