Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lack of mass-production experience got the plant snarled up. In 1948, the British brought in Heinz Nordhoff, who, as boss of General Motors' Opel subsidiary in Brandenburg, Germany, had run the biggest prewar truck factory in Europe. Nordhoff inherited a weird setup. No one knew who owned the Volkswagen factory or who should get its profits. Technically built by the Nazis' German Labor Front, the money came from 300,000 "Volkswagen savers," who paid $2 a week in advance for the cars they never got. But Nordhoff didn't care who owned the factory. Said...
...Harriman-Kefauver forces, beaten again, decided they needed an adjournment to rally their strength and prevent a ballot that night. Senator Paul Douglas, like a man possessed, shouted, "Mr. Chairman! Mr. Chairman!" In a hoarse, weird croak, he moved adjournment. When it looked as if Chairman Rayburn might let the convention dispose of the matter by voice vote, Douglas, his face contorted in frenzy, shouted. "Roll call! Roll call!" The roll was called, and the convention decided to stay in session...
...Weird & Tragic. For the U.S. the settlement was far from a victory. In its 55 days, the steel strike has set back U.S. arms deliveries some 25%. Said Defense Secretary Robert Lovett: "No enemy nation could have so crippled our production as has this work stoppage. No form of bombing could have taken out of production in one day 380 steel plants and kept them out nearly two months. The weird and tragic thing is that we've done this to ourselves. Whether it is murder committed by someone else or suicide by ourselves, the effect is the same...
Grey Lady. The Rudges soon discovered that the country people held pudding stones in a kind of veneration, calling them "growing stones" or "motherstones." Superstitions had gathered around them. In Oxfordshire they were shunned after dark; a weird lady was supposed to sit on them at midnight to comb her grey hair. One stone built into a church carried a strange local legend. A farmer told Mrs. Rudge that the people who built the church brought the pudding stone down from a hill, and three times the devil carried the stone back to its lone hilltop. So the church...
...Jones, this triplicity of Whites before him has taken on a weird, nightmarish character. For one thing, many people look at him suspiciously when he announces that he is a TIME correspondent named Jones. For another, everywhere he goes he learns that Senhor White has been there before him. At a cocktail party, one indignant lady told him: "This is not meant to be personal, but for us in Rio TIME without Whites is no longer TIME...