Word: queering
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...Nevertheless, I was always con scious and I saw the queer, deep, dark blue of a cloudless and mistless sky; a far deeper blue than that seen from the earth's sur face. . . . I could feel the tightening of the contracting metal parts of the plane." (Contraction was due to intense cold). When his barograph registered 12,800 metres, Pilot Callizo descended, hovering at 500 metres, to collect his shocked faculties. After inspection of his instruments, officials credited him with having flown higher than any man- 12,422 metres (40,820 ft., nearly 8 mi., two-fifths...
...observer of the times, who first suspected that man was weary of walking upright and looking at the stars ; and judging from the doings of experimenting scientists, this weariness is leading man into strange and shadowy paths-the blending of the ape and man-monkey spawn and angel spawn. Queer things are coming from Russia! ELMER MILLS...
...workers glanced at their letters and quickly secluded themselves in their closely shut parlors for conference with wives or husbands. That evening of propaganda was a queer one in Billancourt. Workers greeted one another with restraint, peeked slyly aside at one another. Next day the Renault factories resumed production, having granted only the 10% wage increase...
...here the whole right stepped into the breach, joined with the twenty still loyal to the Premier, and, thus forming a majority, voted confidence. The situation is queer and precarious. Briand has a majority to which he can look for support upon only one subject, namely finance. For help upon all others, he must look to his financial opponents. He must play a shifting, short-suited game, now depending upon one hand, now upon the other. Apart from the actual financial problem, observers can watch with interest, this spectacular straddling...
...imaginative, Saxon gnomes and dwarfs shuffled their twisted, contorted bodies about the money markets of Manhattan last week. They were the blue-gummed, loose-wristed, grimacing gentry who ages ago clambered out of gloomy, endless pits in Saxony, bearing queer ores, green and blue and variegated, ores which they melted down with Loki's fires and pounded with Thor's hammer into shapes useful for the villagers...