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Nothing in the crowd of sturdy, suntanned relatives who saw Farmer Bunker to his grave could remind anyone of the medical quirk-luridly advertised by Barnum-that made freaks of their ancestors...
Sluts are only human. By a quirk Of unastonished nature, your obscene...
...written to the Bureau of Naval Personnel, reporting himself fit and ready for active duty. He was assigned to a tour as an instructor in seamanship at the Naval Academy. He was fit enough to navigate a sloop in the grueling Newport-Bermuda race. But by a legal quirk, the Navy was powerless to put Rosenberg back on the active list without a special Act of Congress. Rosenberg started lobbying to get the bill through. Last week the Senate passed it, sent it to the House...
With a quizzical quirk of his wide mouth, Mike Monroney told Oklahoma voters, "If I haven't done anything else, I'm getting Elmer Thomas acquainted with his own state...
Every now & then, by a cruel quirk of nature, twins are born joined together. Medical science unfeelingly calls them double monsters. They come in almost infinite variety: complete and otherwise well-formed babies may be joined at the back of the head, down the side, or at the buttocks; grotesquely malformed twins may have one trunk and two pairs of legs, or two heads, two pairs of arms and one pair of legs. Nearly always they share the use of one or more organs...