Word: queered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Briton caused Malik's face to redden as he derided "the queer, upside-down language . . . employed by U.S.S.R. propaganda . . . We really do seem to be living in a rather nightmarish Alice-in-Wonderland world...
...some sane art in your pages? Why must we always look at psychopathic doodles of the queer, the charlatan, the tongue-in-cheek jests of artists who can draw or paint and the childish "primitives" of those who cannot...
...subsidy and want none, and yet porterhouse was selling last week in Manhattan at a record $1.20 a lb. Cornell Farm Economist H. E. Babcock, one of the foremost exponents of "the livestock economy," had developed a symbol to tell the story. Bab-cock's "Unimal" is a queer creature with the face of a calf, the crest of a rooster, the forequarters of a sheep, the udder of a cow, the wings of a turkey and the hindquarters of a pig (see cut). The critter represents a composite of the kind of products farmers should raise more...
Incidentally, your 1943 article makes very interesting reading today. You refer to his presence in the Senate as "a queer accident of democracy"; his Presidency underlines this...
...mystifying power to exalt them (and to check the violence of the Japanese guards) seems to lie less in what he says than in the gentleness with which he says it. Reports spread that he has effected miraculous cures of paralyzed soldiers. To the senior British officer, this seems "queer, unorthodox . . . creepy," but to Padre Choyce it seems evidence of "the hand of God." Profoundly humbled, the chaplain begins to live by Andros' quiet exhortation: "Open the gates of that citadel, your heart, and don't be afraid when men come...