Word: queered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evoked her husband's memory: "I believe I can best carry out his ideas, his unfinished work and our joint convictions." Asked how she now felt about her charges against John Kennedy, Mrs. Bridges replied: "Perhaps Styles used better words. He used to say 'He has a queer way of dealing with Communists...
...MARK. The sorriest of subjects -the hero is queer for little girls-is investigated with rare skill by Scenarists Sidney Buchman and Stanley Mann. The result is an earnest, valuable and even beautiful film...
...headlines, echoing queer names and remote places, was becoming all too insistent. It told of the United Nations' painful effort to pacify a province called Katanga and unify an emerging nation called Congo. To many it seemed a strange and distant venue to win so much of the world's attention. In a sense, it was; the Congo crisis hardly compared with the peril of war in tense Berlin, nor was it as immediate a danger to peace as the furtive Communist advances in the paddyfields of Southeast Asia. In the U.S. and elsewhere, many would have liked...
...Gothic foliage of Shakespeare's fancy and compress his tale into that traditional form of Japanese theater known as noh. As in those vast dance-dramas of destiny, Kurosawa's actors run to the grand mythological gesture, speak in noble recitative, and are accompanied by a queer, irrelevant commentary of abstruse instruments that bip and pok and squitter on the sound track like a chorus of corpses chanting punctuation...
Past the Grave. Firbank was as queer a bird as ever fluttered. Pathological shyness contorted his thin frame. It constricted his throat so that he could hardly eat in company; at a dinner given for him, he managed to down one green pea. At his club, he once took fright at the sight of the headwaiter and hid under the table. He had, of course, an independent income (poor people with Firbank's temperament simply die or are shut away). He came from solid stock: his grandfather worked his way up from the coal mines to become a contractor...