Word: freakish
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...McCain has what author and friend Michael Lewis once described as "a love of actual risk" that is "freakish" in a politician. Before the Michigan primary, he told voters in the economically ravaged state that lost auto-industry jobs "aren't coming back," a dose of undiluted straight talk that probably cemented his loss there to Romney. And no sooner had he arrived in Florida than he declared himself opposed to a costly national catastrophic-insurance bill that is widely backed by Sunshine State voters and supported by Florida's popular Republican governor, Charlie Crist, whose endorsement McCain covets...
...It’s easy to pass off the late-August floods that took 20 lives and cost millions of dollars to clean up from Texas to Wisconsin—freakish weather in a part of the America where that’s common. Unless of course, those were your houses washed away, your relatives drowned, or your insurance premiums raised...
...costly insurance premium hike. But I’m beginning to think that that’s what it will take for Americans to internalize in their hearts, minds, and wallets—where it really counts—that global warming is a real process, driving freakish, real events. I dare say, that would make them demand change and act to bring it about...
Furthermore, most are aware that cancer is indisputably devastating, whereas, to many, the symptoms of many mental illnesses seem only freakish or funny. These harmful misconceptions are often perpetuated by popular media, which get away with portraying obsessive-compulsives as comically anal because the consuming public doesn’t know enough to protest or to turn away with shaking heads, saying, “That?...
...diamond engagement ring become so popular because it's a symbol of value? Does a man give it to a woman to show how much he's willing to spend on her, and that somehow is a demonstration of his love? What if, through some freakish market devaluation, diamonds suddenly cost a tenth of what they do now - and everyone wore huge rocks for all occasions... would you still want one? -Rebecca...