Word: freakishness
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...league baseball was last week fast becoming a sport for creaking oldtimers and freakish 4-Fs. Two hundred and one big-leaguers (more than 50% of the regular personnel) have joined the armed forces, including such key players as the Cardinals' Enos Slaughter and Johnny Beazley, the Yankees' "Red" Ruffing and Phil Rizzuto, Dodger Slugger Pete Reiser and Red Sox 1942 Player-of-the-year Ted Williams. Last week two more mainstays were headed warward: Yankee Joe DiMaggio and Dodger Manager Leo ("Lippy") Durocher...
Thousands of feet above sea level tower the Owen Stanley mountains. Thick, jungly undergrowth, palms, bamboos, rotting and slimy vegetation cover their jagged flanks. Natives hoist themselves up the precipitous slopes by trailing liana vines. Waterfalls, gorges and limestone cliffs form freakish barriers. Strange, malicious insects infest the equatorial hell. It is one of the world's wildest jungles. Last week the Owen Stanley* range still stood. But the Japs, in less than a week's time, had negotiated...
...Supreme Court handed down a decision last week that directly affected only a small, freakish religious sect, but indirectly affected nothing less than freedom of conscience...
...years have also been creating mutations of plants (and animals) with X-rays (TIME, April 14). Such previous mutations were caused by the ionizing-or "electrifying" -effect of X-rays on the cell's chromosomes, kneading these heredity-determining units into unusual patterns and thus producing freakish plants which would seldom occur in nature...
...freak engineering feats with which the U.S. tried to bridge the Atlantic in World War I, none was more freakish than the concrete ship. Of these "floating stones" the U.S. built 43. Last week the Maritime Commission, leaving no floating stone unturned, ordered 15 concrete barges costing...