Word: freakish
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...stagnant economy, restore political liberty. While the ghost of the hanged Menderes still haunted the nation, the army returned the country to civilian rule last October and sponsored parliamentary elections that made Gursel President, but failed to provide a stable majority to enact essential reforms. The result is a freakish two-party coalition government that joins the army-favored Republican People's Party of Premier Ismet Inonu with its archenemies, the political heirs of Menderes gathered in the Justice Party...
Other Republicans were worried about the split on the far right. In Brooklyn, New York's Senator Jacob K. Javits said that the party was doomed if it accepted the "freakish ideas" of those who sought to "repudiate the 20th century." Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall told a Seattle audience: "We won't survive by saying 'I won't play' - or by finding an enemy under every rug." Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, who got a two-minute ovation when he was introduced to a crowd of 13,000 in Cincinnati, pleaded for unity...
...Jefferson County, employs 1,200, and boasts a $5 million plant-including a heated clubhouse and a three-quarter-mile track that is specially designed to provide good footing, even when it is covered with snow. But Charles Town's persistent problem is still the freakish winter weather. In 1954, a bolt of lightning struck the starting gate, knocked out Starter Harold Holland and the two Percherons that were tugging the gate into position. In 1956, riders abruptly quit for the day after a 60-m.p.h. gust of wind blew Jockey George Stidham out of his saddle...
...explain the down-to-earth gravity of Firbank's thistledown art, and to deal with the strange power of such lines as " 'He has only one eye and I never know which one is looking at me,' the Queen would sometimes complain." Although apparently a freakish offshoot of modern literature, Firbank was actually a great innovator, Powell suggests. Two masters of dialogue, Ivy Compton-Burnett and Evelyn Waugh, sat in Firbank's school. In fact, Firbank's exotics-improbable princesses, epicene cardinals, Caribbean market queens and so on-talk with the raw strength of Hardy...
...spent a lifetime buying newspapers (he now has 14) and making them pay, has never seriously shopped in New York; he feels that Manhattan's field of seven will ultimately shrink to four. Times Publisher Orvil Dryfoos, agrees that the presence of seven Manhattan dailies is "freakish." Says Dryfoos, without naming those papers he thinks are doomed: "Within ten years there's bound to be a different lineup...