Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spot where radioactive material is handled with gingerly precaution. Hottest spot of this sort in any non-Government lab is the bottom of a water-filled tank at California's Stanford Research Institute, where a rod and four nesting cylinders of radioactive cobalt glow with a weird blue light. Together they weigh only 10 Ibs. and they cost only $22,500, but they give off as much radiation (4,500 curies) as $80 million worth of radium. If their shielding water were to leak away, they would give a man a fatal dose of radiation in seven seconds...
...about the 'Poon is its light verse. In this issue Updike's contributions are outstanding, but Henry Ziegler, although not at his best, has also written some amusing verse. The cartoons are not particularly funny; they are to a marked degree unsuccessful attempts to duplicate Addams' sense of the weird and unexpected...
Hustling and pressing with the start of the second period, the Crimson regained the lead at 3:15 on a weird goal by Hubbard. Kelley had seemingly saved the right-alley drive, but then kicked the puck in. The Crimson held on until defenseman Jeff Coolidge went off for elbowing at 15:39. Half a minute later, star Terrier forward Dick Rodenniser bore in all alone from the right and slammed the disk past Richardson...
They could all find something worth looking at: there were seven special exhibits going at once. On the ground floor were a folk costume show and a comprehensive display of "The Weird"-no etchings, drawings and lithographs from the gruesome isth century genii of Albrecht Diirer to the willowy 20th century witches of Charles Addams ("May I borrow a cup of cyanide?"). Upstairs were other shows: the Metropolitan's 30 famed Rembrandts, a collection of miniature objects, earliest American landscapes, contemporary American watercolors, drawings and prints...
...world in 1500 astonished the Spanish court. Their Majesties Ferdinand and Isabella ran their royal fingers through the soft-furred pouch on the beast's belly and marveled at such a freak of nature. In that age of exaggerations, the little cat-sized creature grew into weird shapes in the minds of men. To the Venetian court reporter, Peter Martyr, it looked like a "monstrous beaste with a snowte lyke a foxe, a tayle lyke a marmasette, eares lyke a batte, handes lyke a man, and feete lyke...