Word: weirder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prisoners' long-sought release came only hours after the enactment of a scene that belongs in the weirder annals of diplomacy. In the one-story hut in Panmunjom that has seen hundreds of meetings since the 1953 truce that ended the Korean War, U.S. Army Major General Gilbert H. Woodward sat down opposite North Korean Major General Pak Chung Kuk. "The position of the U.S.," said General Woodward, the top U.N. member of the armistice commission, "has been that the ship was not engaged in illegal activities, that there is no convincing evidence that the ship at any time...
...Even weirder, of course, was their uniform-an affront to starched red coat propriety from the tops of their bearskin hats to the tips of their famous diamond-patterned Argyll stockings. In fact, these fineries, plus the tartan kilt, so effectively kept Englishmen from signing on with the regiment that Britain's adjutant-general at one point ordered it to adopt a uniform less "objectionable to the natives of South Britain...
Saigon's two English-language news papers - the Daily News and the Post -cover the Viet Nam war in considerable detail, but what really excites them is activity on the home front. Without leaving Saigon, their reporters uncover weirder and wilder stories than the battlefield could ever produce. Crime and sex are embellished with garbled gram mar, misspellings and typos. One typically zestful Post story began last week...
...skewered him -and there follows an adventuresome confrontation of good and evil as Wiltshire struggles for his existence against this betel-nut Belial who once went to Oxford and who now wears sharks' teeth around his neck and spooks the entire island with his weird, wicked acts and weirder metaphysics. "The ghosts of beautiful women," he says, "fly backwards so that you cannot see the worm marks on their faces...
...less than three years. It presents the case of a fellow who can disrobe women with his eyes. This faculty frightens Teas, so Teas flees. Eventually he goes to a female psychiatrist. When she, too, loses her clothing under his regard, he finally accepts his fate. One of the weirder facts about these films is that many of the actors use their .own names; Teas, for example, is played by a photographer named W. Ellis Teas. Not Tonight Henry stars Nightclub Performer Hank Henry, who has just been named Las Vegas' Father of the Year...