Word: queered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends had said of him: "Neville is a man to die with, but not for." Chamberlain had died for his country, in his own queer, lonely way, while his country still fought for its life. It was too soon to know whether the life and death of Neville Chamberlain was the tragedy of a man and a class, or of a nation, an empire and a race...
...State Department a queer situation obtained. Many a Roosevelt voter had in his heart cast half of his ballot for Secretary Cordell Hull. The Willkie campaign had courted Mr. Hull, would perhaps have asked him to stay on for a period. But the long friction between Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles could not go on indefinitely. Furthermore, Roosevelt was expected, after the usual six-to-nine-month period of hesitation, to nudge Hull out for a younger, more aggressive man. Yet it was said that the grave old Tennessean would never leave his post, if Welles...
...Spain and France there was no rejoicing, only a queer, unreal enthusiasm. Arriba of Madrid, the Falangist paper, tried to take consolation in a link of blood with ancient Germans. Basques, Asturians, Castilians, it said, "bear the unmistakable imprint of their Visigoth origin." In Paris, Le Temps's editorial writer cut a tiny gem of black futility: "There are days when it is difficult to write anything at all on any subject whatsoever...
...Secretary Harry Hopkins, the National Inventors' Council has only one reason for existence: to listen to all inventors, cracked or solid, tap them for soundness. Head of the council was one of the U. S.'s most famed industrial scientists, who has been known to have some queer ideas himself-horse-faced, talkative Charles Kettering, General Manager of Research Laboratories of General Motors Corp., inventor of the self-starter, electric cash register, etc. Around the table were nine others: Chrysler's crack Engineer Fred M. Zeder, Du Font's Research Director Fin Sparre, General Electric...
...could presumably ask for and take over the "defense" of the International Settlement. Since the U. S. could not and would not assume responsibility for fighting off the Japanese alone, Shanghai's International Settlement last week was as good as surrendered. Shanghailanders knew that they had lost their queer hybrid foreign city, not quite 100 years...