Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast as she could to stay where she was. Many U.S. executives have the same feeling. When they get a raise, taxes take so much that they have little of it left in real income. To find other ways to reward them, U.S. industry is evolving a system of weird and complex devices known as "gimmicks." Says RCA's Chairman David Sarnoff: "You can't compete for executive talent today without a gimmick...
Wealth v. Brains. At home, Silvio amused himself by decorating the gardens of his villa with a weird menagerie of statuary whose faces bore a startling resemblance to the stuffier citizens of Contrada. Nevertheless, most of the villagers were content to accept Don Silvio as a wealthy, if eccentric, benefactor...
...really shook to see that TIME has begun to dig the mellower things in life. That real cool [June 22] article on our own "Red" Blanchard was the zorchest mess of weird words your crazy mag's had in eons. It was really nervous, man, and it'll sure help to button up these eggheaded cubes...
...Potez 75, a weird-looking antitank craft with a podlike body hanging between twin fuselages. It fires four guided missiles which unreel up to 1,968 yds. of wire in flight. By means of electrical impulses sent through the wire, a man in the cockpit, sitting at a stick similar to the pilot's, guides the missiles...
...contrast to this bureaucratic farce stands the criminal vitality of Moosbrugger, a murderer and sex maniac. From his many bouts with the law, Moosbrugger has picked up a weird blend of legal and psychiatric jargon, by which he expresses the chaotic resentments which seethe within him-and which, hints Novelist Musil, also seethe within millions of his fellow men. In his deluded fashion, Moosbrugger comes to think that "his whole life had been a battle for his rights." And Ulrich, though his exact opposite, feels a certain sympathy, even a sneaking identification, with Moosbrugger. "If mankind could dream collectively...