Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Wing YB-49 is the second to be built by Northrop Aircraft, Inc. (the first has been undergoing test flights since last October). A queer, tailless bird, the YB-49 is powered by eight jet engines, with a thrust roughly equivalent to 32,000 h.p., making it the most powerful bomber in the world and one of the fastest...
...want to queer his chances of U.S. recognition. He was not too worried about Figueres, whose new regime was already being challenged by Costa Rica's rightist landlords; but he didn't want Costa Rica to be a base of operations against him. Then he had to think about Guatemala's Arévalo, who hated him and who had just shown, by going to Figueres' rescue when it counted, that Guatemala would intervene on the side of Tacho's enemies...
...suppose," remarks Robinson in an early letter, "it does look a little queer to see me practically doing nothing at my age." These words touched on the festering sore of his conscience. Robinson could never quite accept the implications of his belief that "dollars are convenient things to have . . . but this diabolical, dirty race that men are running after them disgusts me. . . ." While bravely declaring "business be damned," he ruefully comments that "poetry is a good thing, provided a man is warm enough...
...Chateau d'lf, he seduced the canteen attendant, was moved to another prison, finally fled over the frontier (leaving still another mistress behind him). His sister and her lover, accompanied by a girl engaged to be married, joined him in Switzerland. Mirabeau seduced the other girl. A queer conflict developed with his sister -he wrote to his mistress of her in detail that admitted of incestuous relations; the letter fell into the hands of her father; she became the most rabid of all the enemies who pursued...
...queer logic to term anything right and normal just because it happens, but that is what Kinsey and his coworkers have done," Zimmerman stated. According to the report, "even the acts of the sexual athlete and the esoteric are to be considered normal...