Word: queered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel, his short legs pumping up & down with extraordinary speed, churned straight up the slope toward the firing. A queer glimmer of a smile played around his lips. Three riflemen, an officer called Jack, two soldiers with walkie-talkies and I scrambled after him, while the rest of the battalion flew across the lower slopes...
When the Major stood up and said: "Our target today is one of great importance; Rome has never been bombed," Ector Bolzoni felt queer. It was a little hard for Lieut. Bolzoni to take in all the details of the briefing. He was thinking of the day in October 1941, when he applied to enter the Air Forces and was called before the examining board and asked: "How would you feel, and how would your family feel, if you were ordered to bomb Rome?" He had said that day: "I'm going into the Army for a reason...
...That is a fortunate fact for civilization, thinks Zoologist John R. Baker of Oxford University, who fears that the world may wind up with a planned society after the war. He has written a bitter book, The Scientific Life (Macmillan; $2.50), demanding that scientists be allowed to be as queer as they please...
...great 18th-Century British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish (discoverer of nitric acid, the chemical composition of water, etc.) was so unsociable that he "was known to flee from a company of strangers uttering a queer cry like a frightened animal"; he was also so unworldly that when asked for a handout for a sick employe, he offered...
...doctor said first that it was just a swollen ankle, then, as her mother was relaxing in relief: "Suddenly a thought stabbed me. . . . There was no more laughing. Just low voices, talking, talking. . . . My husband stood looking out of the window. I felt queer. As if a burden had been lifted from me. . . . Dr. George Draper . . . said infantile paralysis was a strange disease. ... 'At present she has only the use of her left arm,' he said. 'Prognosis for life is fair...