Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were hundreds of Micronesian natives against whom the U.S. had no grudge. So U.S. warships recently steamed at night into Wotje lagoon, defying thousands of hate-filled withering Japs. Native guides who had escaped and promoted the rescue attempt were sent ashore to wake the sleeping villagers. Soon a weird flotilla of outrigger canoes was paddled to the warships. More than 700 natives were taken aboard, with their poultry and pigs. The Japs were left on the vine...
...head of the non-T list are Navy and Georgia Tech, whose conventional single-wing formations clashed last week in a weird, fumbling game at Atlanta. Tech's gained yardage was minus 6 against the Middies' plus 221, but the final score was Tech 17, Navy 15. Bo McMillan's Indiana team is the lone Big Ten eleven shunning the T. Last week the Hoosiers upset Northwestern...
Most of the eight short stories in The Great Fog are as weird as this one. Bearded, erudite Author Henry Fitzgerald Heard is a masterly exponent of the Doylian detective story and the Wellsian, pseudoscientific fantasy. Writing under the name of Gerald Heard, he is also a distinguished British mystic (Pain, Sex and Time; The Ascent of Humanity...
Next day, reluctantly, Cap Krug was out of Navy blues and into a grey-brown suit. He could expect a handful of resignations. The first: able Sidney J. Weinberg, who had been specifically drafted into WPB for the weird job of keeping the peace between Messrs. Nelson and Wilson...
...Gaslight" is a simple story with a simple plot, but the underlying idea is not simple, and its weird, almost haunting quality. The idea of one person undermining the confidence of another, artfully plotting to prey upon his weaknesses and doubts with insanity the ultimate end, has a certain horrible strangeness that is powerful cinema. It makes you think, and it makes "Gaslight...