Word: queering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anybody could want of joyous sweating, of rain and wind, of hunting, of cows and horses and dogs, of chopping wood, of making hay, of dreaming, of lying in a hollow all warm with the sun shining while the wind was howling, of knowing all poor kinds of queer people...
...well -make his ears and sense of location work for him." He is helped by the fact that table tennis is one of the few sports that make sense being heard and not seen. Medick discovered this in college (Western Reserve) when he learned that the queer tap-tapping in the recreation room was a game; learning the rules. Medick bet a pint of ice cream that he could score the noise without a mistake...
...Queer Conscience. In Duluth, after two teen-agers were chased down by cops for speeding and running a red light, they explained that they were headed for the library with an overdue book...
...traveling a far piece to all the frolics and play-parties in the mountain country, Schoolma'am Campbell became friendlylike with Aunt Lizbeth Fields, who had a big store of tales about all manner of things golden; and with Big Nelt, who was mighty queer-turned and droll-natured but a right accommodating man even if he didn't wear shoes except in chilling weather; and with Uncle Tom Dixon, who favored tales where things go in threes. Most all the stories are tales the tellers had always just known, tales that were told in the generations...
Publicly at least, the British were stubbornly insistent on going ahead with what they called a seven-year adventure in partnership-even though it is a queer partnership when the Greeks refuse to be a partner. Partnership would divide the Greek Cypriot majority and the Turkish Cypriot minority on Cyprus into separate legislative councils, and would bring the Athens and Ankara governments into a kind of tridominium rule with Britain. This, the Greeks argued with good cause, would merely freeze the hatreds of the island for the next seven years...