Word: quirkly
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...brought the ssytem close to the lives of students, but because it demanded explanation. There is a great need on the left for rational explanation, for ways of looking at events and people that make sense. And the War did not make sense as a momentary aberration, a quirk in an otherwise benevolent foreign policy. The hectic pace of politics in the sixties and the obvious ineptitude (or was it ineptitude?) of those in power forced a radical analysis on these students...
...Crimson freshmen urned in two more lopsided victories. crushing Providence. 15-50. and U Mass, 17-45. John Quirk won again for the Yardlings, improving his time by 25 seconds to 15:15, to move closer to the record of 15:30 set by Ben wilson of M.I.T...
...mile point that was more than accomplished. Marshall Jones led his teammates to the two-mile spot in 9:42, and moments later, John Quirk went ahead on his way to a 30-yard victory. His time, 16:10, was 20 seconds better than Koerner's winning time last fall...
Wrong Dream. They might be, except that Condon loses his balance and -odd for him-goes off the shallow end. For the first time in eight novels, he wavers from his delightful obsession that maniacal rigidity is civilization's main motivating force and therefore the only human quirk worth a novelist's attention. He begins to worry solemnly about what went wrong with the American Dream. One of the results is a lengthy mumble that goes like this...
Mann and Taylor discovered the existence of this quirk by spending a sum mer month questioning people waiting in lines at sporting events or movie hous es. With uncanny precision, the research ers found, the mood of the queuers changed at the mysterious but universally recognizable dividing point. Ahead of it, people estimated the length of the line and their chances of success quite accurately; often they would over estimate the number of people ahead of them as a pessimistic cushion against being disappointed. But just behind the point, people consistently underestimated the size of the crowd ahead of them...