Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center of Paris, the pilgrims were joined by a shock troop of art students in weird disguises (see cut). In the afternoon, the proprietors of all the Paris dress houses threw parties for their midinettes (Christian Dior gave his on the first platform of the Eiffel Tower). The spirit of the occasion was best summarized by one reveler who threw a Camembert, in just the right state of decomposition, up to the ceiling; there it stuck, slowly dripping cheese on the gaiety below...
Italian exports have been dropping fast, due to the weird double currency standard under which Italian exporters were forced to operate. The government had required them to exchange half of any dollars they earned at the "legal" rate, let them sell the other half in the free (i.e., black) market. But as the exporting manufacturers had to pay for imported raw materials at the black-market rate, the squeeze robbed them of their profits-and their incentive to produce...
...Weird Mysteries. As head of Sheffield (he is also president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science), Dr. Sinnott presides over a school that grew out of a dank laboratory, 15 feet below the ground because the architect was fearful of "the black arts, explosions . . . and weird-like mysteries" of chemistry. The cellar lab was built for Professor Benjamin Silliman, the father of scientific teaching in the U.S.-whose name was frequently honored at Sheffield's centennial last week...
...collection of character studies, "Gus the Great" is superb; as a continuous story, it falls somewhat short of the mark. Mr. Duncan throws out a wealth of threads during his novel and has difficulty weaving them into a satisfactory knot at the climax. Important characters clash in a weird and incongruous way. While others are forgotten entirely. But regardless of the flaws in its construction, "Gus the Great" is a monumental work, showing both penetrating insight and real sympathy for the circus...
Midway in the war, little Jones is browsing happily around in Astyparaean, a language no one has spoken for 50 centuries. There he encounters an old god, name of Zotz, who confers on him a weird and deadly power. Any insect, beast or man that Jones points at falls in a hideous faint; if he both points and says "Zotz!" the pointee drops horribly dead. Jones naively goes to Washington to offer this handy power to the Armed Forces. The rest of the book and war he spends being shuttlecocked from plyboard office to plyboard office, receiving but failing...