Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American League had its share of weird happenings, make no mistake. Take the pennant winners, the Chicago White Sox. The Sox last won a flag 40 years ago. And they did it this season with the weakest bunch of hitters in the major leagues. Catcher Sherman Lollar, with 20 home runs, was their one and only slugger. Once the Chisox treated themselves to an 11-run inning with the benefit of just...
...first Shakespearean assignment, director Jose Quintero made some miscalculations; but some of his staging was ingenious and effective, such as the scenes involving the spine-chilling trio of Weird Sisters. The show was visually gripping; and much of the credit must go to the lighting of David Hays '52, which was as inspired as I have seen in a long time...
...seven research vessels that tied up at Manhattan piers, the most romantic was the Calypso of France, commanded by handsome Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, famed underwater explorer and author of The Silent World. Displayed on her deck were weird bits of equipment: submarine scooters, deep-sea motion-picture-taking devices called "halibuts," and an anti-shark cage. In her hold was a Diving Saucer, a two-man submarine designed to follow the ocean bottom down...
...sudden striking silences, the rasp of crickets. Armies fought across the front of the vast Elizabethan stage with such intensity that those in front-row seats pulled back in alarm. Offstage entrances brought the action into the far reaches of the theater; Macbeth strode out to meet the three weird, raffia-haired witches from the very back edge of the theater; Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane down every aisle...
...Sadaqat (Righteousness). Last week they laid bold plans to float a bigger government loan, hire a pool reporter and three stencil cutters, organize group circulation and sales crews. Observing from afar, Governor Husain sent congratulations: "Bound to create history in the field of journalism." But then, Quetta's weird weeklies had already, in a sense, done that...