Word: queered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bravest of the brave was 34-year-old, World War II Navy Hero (Silver Star, D.S.C.) Pat Sutton, Democrat. Conceding that "it seems queer and funny," Pat offered an amendment to eliminate a $1,800,000 dam planned for his own district in Tennessee. His astonished colleagues, obviously impressed, passed the amendment...
Popper defined science as "a friendly rivalry where each scientist tries to prove the other wrong . . . it consists in having ideas--queer, bold, inventive--rather than in careful observation...
...blue tits in England [TIME, Jan. 23] was occasioned by their eating fermented berries. It is not an unusual occurrence for birds to become somewhat inebriated as a result of partaking of fermented sap or berries. The yellow-bellied sapsucker of our country is known for its queer behavior in this respect...
...week's end there were signs that Churchill was about to give up his suit. Said he: "The authors of this demonstration [the Liberal crusade] hope to queer the pitch so that the result of the great electoral struggle may be meaningless...
Then came what Emmanuel calls "a rather queer question." Stanger asked: were you a friend of Jean Richard Bloch? Emmanuel writes, that Bloch, who died in 1947, "was an important French writer, President of the Association of the French Press, and also a communist." Emmanuel answered Stanger that he had met Bloch several times, but could not call himself a friend of his. Why then, Stanger asked, did you attend his funeral...