Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Critics of the new laws, who once chuckled over them, are now worried that they chill warnings about food safety. "The statutes at first were regarded as quirky and weird, but they are an area where First Amendment rights are bumping up against commercial interests," says Emory University law professor David Bederman, who tried unsuccessfully to challenge Georgia's food-disparagement law. If such laws had existed in the 1960s, environmentalists say, people would have been afraid to criticize the pesticide DDT, which was considered safe until it was proved to cause cancer and then banned in the U.S. "Going...
NASA'S HIGH FLYER EARNS ITS WEIRD WINGS...
...very least intrigued, by the sight of a dead body. In some of his other people there's a passivity that is no less unnerving. You see it in his picture of Irma Twiss Epstein, a nanny accused of killing a child in her care, whose weird serenity is the precursor of the affectless stare that fascinated Arbus...
...Explains the derivation of the "emotional ballad" Weird: "We were talking about the fact that nobody had ever written a song about the word weird. It seemed strange to us. Think about how many times you say 'weird...
...sort of weird that it went through and went down into our own net", said Higdon. "That kind of thing only happens once in every blue moon. It was a bizarre bounce and a frustrating loss because we definitely had chances to win the game before that and shouldn't have had to be in that position in the first place...