Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department does not look with favor on this means of getting in touch with people on the other side of the barrier," he declared. "They have the idea that it will be construed as an invasion of sovereignty by the Russian government. Through some queer quirk of diplomatic reasoning, it is no invasion to shoot our words across on electromagnetic waves in the other, but it is not quite cricket to send printed material across. That's a little too unconventional. In some way it is rather raw. It is not in accordance with the niceties of diplomatic practice...
...traveled much and is no stranger to Western ways. A man who likes to wear a Homburg, Nehru has preferred Western dress since his British schooldays (Harrow as well as Cambridge). This preference is one of the contradictions which once made him write of himself: "I have become a queer mixture of the East and West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere...
Roundheads & Rome. The ticking began almost at birth. The son of Historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan and grandnephew of Lord Macaulay, young George grew up in a rambling mansion in Shakespeare's Warwickshire. He was a "queer, happy little boy," who would play soldier ("Napoleonic period") by the hour, and could recite the Lays of Ancient Rome by heart. At school, he was happiest arguing the Roundhead cause against his pro-Cavalier school chums, or wandering about some nearby battlefield with his history-minded house master ("O boy, you oughtn't to have a hot bath twice...
...Administration's $1.45 billion military-aid program was a queer-looking weapon; not even an expert could tell whether it was designed to scatter birdshot or shoot bear. That was the sensible objection raised to it by many Congressmen who could not be dismissed as isolationists. As drawn, the bill would give Harry Truman authority to send U.S. arms to any nation in the world-or even to any political faction in any nation...
...place needed at least a servant or two to keep it up. Furthermore, it got that spacious look by having a lot of unused space, which Grandmother could afford when her house was built. Perhaps the home-builder should try something new. Flat-roofed, wide-windowed homes that looked queer ten years ago have since become a decorative part of the residential landscape Every major school of architecture in th U.S. emphasizes the modern, and thi year every honor award presented by thi American Institute of Architects in thi residential field went to a modern house...