Word: freakishness
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...President put on the blue-red-yellow sash of office. For Camilo Ponce Enriquez, 44, the problems that go with the sash are likely to prove especially burdensome. He is a Conservative in a country that has been politically dominated by Liberals since the revolution of 1895. Only a freakish three-way split among Liberal factions in last June's election made it possible for Ponce to win at all, and even so, he got only 29% of the votes, edging out the runner-up by some 3,000 votes-one-half of i% of the total...
...official inhabitants of the town in the official chastisement of "gownies." The second truth which this tale teaches is that the Cambridge Police should place men who are accustomed to college frivolity on the Garden Street beat. Finally, students are warned that, if they must sport themselves in freakish attire, it would be well to carry along either a bursar's card, or money...
When measured against its postwar record, the market's action is not so freakish. Since the war, it has been not so much a barometer of future business as a measure of how businessmen feel about the future. In 1946, 1947 and 1949 they expected a recession, and the market cracked, though no serious slump ever came. Now, despite the slide in production, businessmen are optimistic, and the market has gone...
...first, officers assumed that Davenport had been struck by a fragment from some freakish artillery burst. Then an autopsy physician found that he had been killed by a rifle bullet, and officers decided that Lieut. Davenport had been shot by a soldier with a grudge. The lieutenant had never disciplined Edgar or had any trouble with him, and the investigators did not pay him any special attention...
...Cedar Rapids, Iowa to slant a powerful beam of 49.8 megacycle waves into the air in the direction of its own Radio Laboratory at Sterling, Va. The distance between transmitter and receiver is about 800 miles, so the signal might be expected to come through only in freakish bursts...