Word: freakish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with the United States (TIME, July 5, 1937), The Donkey Inside (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941) and I Love You, I Love You, I Love You (TIME, Sept. 14, 1942), will be disappointed. In its 153 pages they will find the usual bitter-sweet taste and tragicomic personalities-freakish but heartwarming outcasts; birds and animals with the attractiveness of charming children; the waiters scurrying to & fro with black bread, liverwurst and seidels of foaming beer; chestnut and willow trees; nostalgia, trouble and human patience. But at the heart of these things is a brood of despicable Nazis; and when he comes...
...Minnesota, two feet of flood water still stood where farmers usually have spring wheat planted by mid-April. March ice had smothered winter wheat. A freakish end-of-March thaw, followed by April's freeze, had sent torrents over the frozen soil and pushed the Mississippi to flood stage...
...Massachusetts, the weather was at its most freakish. Bostonians, used to odd weather, allowed they had never seen its beat. A thunderstorm ripped through Boston, pummeling pedestrians, toppling chimneys, uprooting trees, smashing store windows and starting fires. The storm whooshed across the state, wound up in the Berkshires with a seven-inch snowfall. Next day Boston had the coldest April 15 in history...
...Harlem Globe Trotters, a barnstorming colored basketball team, have produced many a freakish player. None has been more bizarre than their latest find: Reece ("The Goose") Tatum, a 22-year-old Arkansan who stands 6 ft. 3, has a reach (from left to right...
Bell Aircraft's first break came in 1937 when it proudly announced the Airacuda, a freakish-looking, poor-flying bomber-fighter which got a burst of publicity but little else. Then came Bell's first success: the Airacobra, a flashy, 400-m.p.h., single-place fighter which has a cannon in its nose and climbs like an express elevator...