Word: quirkly
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...question marks dominate this afternoon's lineups for both Crimson captain Bob Cleary and the Indians' ace pitcher Art Quirk are doubtful starters...
This will be the varsity's lone appearance in Cambridge this spring, due to a quirk in the schedule, but the meet promises to be the most exciting of the year...
Pomposity, of course, has its place, but at Harvard an eccentric quirk, a naughty presumption to familiarity, even perhaps the audacity to view life through Kiwanian-colored glasses is regarded by the sedate, the haughty, the chic as being tres gauche. A return to childhood is in order...
...every county of the state, won by 115,000 votes. His victory followed a crunching split in the long-powerful Kansas G.O.P., where highhanded Republican Governor Fred Hall had thoroughly alienated his own party. Even so, the Republicans felt that a Democrat in the statehouse represented some political quirk of fate and would prove to be a brief nightmare. But once in office, Docking settled down to a program so different from Hall's that it pleased even some Republicans...
...helped Wiley win by picking off about 5% of Davis' conservative vote. He makes no bones about trying to trip Walter Kohler in the same fashion. "If Kohler is beaten," he explained, "the Republican Party of Wisconsin will have to nominate a conservative in 1958. If by some quirk Proxmire wins, he will be easily beaten in 1958 by a conservative Republican...