Word: freakish
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...tossed flimsy huts into the air and tore ripening oranges from trees. Thirty-six thousand refugees were homeless in Gaza. Trapped by rising waters, refugees died in Jordan. Part of the Negev desert that had been arid for as long as the oldest inhabitants remembered was suddenly laced with freakish torrents of brown water that cut off a camp and threatened starvation. Soldiers waded waist-deep to isolated camps, tightened sagging guy ropes, improvised drainage canals and dished out hot food. Israeli planes dropped food and medicine...
...more & more scientists agreed. Hams, who have seen this sort of thing happen before, realized that the "useless" radio bands might soon be so valuable that their slice would be drastically trimmed. By last week Bureau of Standards scientists, who are now sure that V.H.F. reflections are no freakish accidents, were more convinced than ever that V.H.F. will provide a vast new frontier for commercial broadcasts...
...from the stage production is in the emphasis of the direction. Perhaps to make up for the confinement of the setting, Elia Kazan set his cameramen and actors to highlight every eccentricity in the cast. Brando responded to this kind of direction by developing an overgrowth of quirks, brilliantly freakish, that dominate every scene in which he enters. As he appears before fastidious Blanche for the first time, the camera-eye stares fascinated at a huge sweat-stain on his T-shirt, just above the area where he is scratching himself; for half a minute the sweat mark-plays...
Specious reasoning, retorted Physicist Ralph E. Lapp, author of the un-scared book, Must We Hide?. Explosions often have freakish effects. Even comparatively feeble ones have freakishly broken windows many miles away, leaving nearer windows unbroken. One cause: an "inversion" (layer of warm air) in the atmosphere, that reflects shock waves downward -and may concentrate them...
Before World War II, the biggest noise a U.S. submarine could make was by sinking unintentionally. In the Navy itself, the "Silent Service," never pitted against a maritime power, was a freakish stepchild with neither battle experience nor fighting tradition.* A pampered stepchild, foreign submariners thought: the big air-conditioned subs were "luxury liners"; ice cream and hot showers would turn the crew into "softies." But U.S. subs had been designed for the war they would one day have to fight, and in grueling 60-day patrols into "The Empire," i.e., Japanese waters, the service abundantly proved its worth...