Word: freakish
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...first glance the story seems a freakish flight into simple lunacy, but once all expectations of a literal reading are abandoned, it has the troubling power of an undiscarded nightmare...
...wonders why, from among the thousands of churches now being constructed and planned, TIME finds it newsworthy to publish pictures of the most freakish things built or planned...
...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...