Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried the T, the split T, and the single wing. But none moved consistently against Stanford's solidly briefed and heavier line. At half time the score was tied 7-7. Daugherty had a new tactic ready. Coming out for the second half his team shifted to a weird formation-a single wing to the right with the line unbalanced to the left. Disconcerted and caught unprepared, the rugged Stanford line split wide open. State's Halfback Clarence Peaks knifed ruthlessly between linemen cut down by blockers they never saw. Before the Stanford team could diagnose...
...hits, another starts his charge. Matsko holds his ground. Again a helmet shoots for his belly; Matsko catches the thrust with his shoulder, brings up his forearm in a vicious swipe to bounce his tormentor clear. After six attacks he is still there. His face stretches into weird contortions as he fights for breath. But he has proved, once more, his right to his job as linebacker. (On the other side of the field, Guard Dan Currie slams his 235 lbs. into a blocking dummy, drives the dummy and the scrub who is holding it a good five yards. Assistant...
Bridey Murphy has faded away into the thin air that produced her, but a weird new phenomenon is loose in the land; a teen-age craze for a boyish Hollywood actor named James Dean, who has been dead for eleven months. Barely a celebrity when he was killed in a sports-car crackup, Dean last week was haunting U.S. newsstands, which are plastered with four fast-selling magazines devoted wholly to him, e.g., Jimmy Dean Returns! ("Read his own words from the beyond!"). The actor is also a current "must" in every movie magazine, while three national magazines...
Mohammed Mossadegh, as weird and wondrous a character as ever stole a headline, was swept into office as Iran's Premier in 1951 on a promise to nationalize the sprawling British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. He accomplished his purpose in a dervishlike vortex of tantrums, sulks, fainting spells, mopes and well-publicized weeping that made even readers of Lil Abner forget Daisy Mae. In doing so, he brought his country to bankruptcy. At one point in his frenzied career, Mossy succeeded in frightening the Shah clean out of his own country...
...moment Alexander Wiley heard some of his weird Wisconsin Republican colleagues let loose, he had good reason to guess that he was licked. The state G.O.P. convention, meeting in Milwaukee last week to choose its candidate for the U.S. Senate primary in September, cheered attacks on "Uncle Sap's" foreign-aid program, then passed resolutions praising the Bricker amendment and the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. As everybody knew, Alex Wiley had been consistently faithful to the Administration's foreign policy as ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had voted against the Bricker amendment, and had even...