Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know how simple most of the people working in the hotel were--these Iowa farm girls and Utah types--really from the sticks. Well, I told them I was majoring in Eskimo Studies at Harvard. They weren't very impressed and I guess they even thought I was queer--there's not much to Eskimos, as I said. But they believed me. Then I told them about the Epic of Nanook. 'They just discovered it,' I'd say. 'It's really exciting. Seven volumes chipped on huge blocks of ice with a primitive axe blade. Then I'd give them...
Peanuts & Promises. Dio, who made a name for himself in his 20s as a strong-arm thug when he and an uncle muscled into the garment trucking industry, worked his way (after a stretch in Sing Sing) up into the labor rackets in a queer way. First he ran a few little dress-manufacturing shops. Then he took over a New York local of the foundering United Auto Workers (A.F.L.). With help from Jimmy Hoffa as well as the union's International Secretary-Treasurer Anthony Doria, Dio surrounded himself with mobsters who had grown tired of robbery, bookmaking...
...water-diviner was given temporary prominence when he claimed to be able to detect ammunition dumps on the French coast. Since Hitler was queer for occult arts, Military Intelligence was told to furnish a Hungarian astrologer with the birth dates of high-ranking German officers. This piece of nonsense led to the useful discovery that the War Office's list of enemy officers was pretty much made up of dead or retired Germans...
...Queer Talk." Even more revealing than Mao's own admissions was the violence of the public criticism unleashed by Red China's current "rectification" campaign. At a discussion meet in Peking's China People's University, Ko Pei-chi, lecturer in industrial economy, chemistry and physics, took at face value Mao's slogan "Let a hundred schrools of thought contend." Wrote Ko, recalling Communist promises of a higher standard of living: "Who are those whose standard of living actually has been raised? It is those party members and cadres who used to wear torn shoes...
...Peking People's Daily, which published it as an example of the kind of criticism Chairman Mao does not welcome, all this was nothing but "queer talk and absurd theories." But perhaps Ko's remarks had some bearing on the most startling admission in Mao's no longer secret speech: "The question of whether socialism or capitalism will win [in China] is still not really settled...