Word: queered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this tricky quickie has finished its first harrowing half-hour. A wind springs up in the middle of the night, and in the cripple's bedroom the door that leads to the terrace begins to bang. The girl wakes, wheels across the room to close it, sees a queer light flickering in the summerhouse, wheels across the terrace, opens the summerhouse door, looks in, sees her father sitting in an armchair-dead...
...from the manufacturer. General Dynamics. Next, charges the TWA complaint, Hughes tried to coerce TWA into agreeing to buy from Hughes Tool 13 Convair 990s (which Hughes had already contracted to buy from General Dynamics). When the Tillinghast team decided instead to buy Boeing 707s, Hughes allegedly sought to queer the deal by warning Boeing that its contract with TWA was invalid because the airline had an obligation to buy from Hughes Tool...
...third person), he sent to an admirer a blurb for his work, intended to be passed on to his publisher. "Personally," wrote Walt, "the author of Leaves of Grass is in no sense whatever the 'rough,' 'eccentric,' 'vagabond' or queer person that the commentators persist in making him . . . always bodily sweet & fresh, dressed plainly & cleanly, a gait & demeanor of antique simplicity ... an American Personality, & real Democratic Presence, that not only the best old Hindu, Greek and Roman worthies would at once have responded to, but which the most cultured European would likewise...
...problem is to prevent off-camera the occurrence of what he is trying to re-create on film. The boys who live in an old pineapple-processing factory they call Fliesville, have already formed their own film production company-with a Brownie camera-to do a mystery called Something Queer in the Warehouse. They also have their own newspaper, called War, in which they report such Fliesville events as a so-ft.-high rocket shot, after which a lizard walked away from the nose cone intact. Brook may not be as lucky as the lizard...
...Americans really are a queer people, and I'm blessed if I can see any family resemblance between...