Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their China-based air power (an estimated 2,000 planes, half of them jets), then, says General Mark Clark, there "should be no holds barred." But the Pentagon and the National Security Council do not agree. They have ordered Clark to bar all holds except limited hot pursuit. This weird phrase means that Clark's air force would be allowed to pursue Red planes back across the Yalu, but they would not be allowed to attack Red bases...
Paolo would rather go home to Carrara and get back to work. The son of a successful sculptor whose wife's family owns some marble quarries, Paolo has been drawing since he can remember. At five he was copying animals out of children's books, putting together weird composites, later ducked school to ramble around the countryside drawing whatever caught his fancy. He took no art lessons, shunned all advice. "He would never listen to me," says his father, Aldo Buttini. Instead, Paolo read art books and tramped through museums soaking up the masters' techniques...
Inevitably, the Warren-Werdel contest was compared with the startling performance of Warren's political protege, 43-year-old Senator William Knowland. In the Republican senatorial primary, Knowland rolled up a total of 1,499,290 votes to 185,827 for two opponents. Under California's weird cross-filing system, Knowland also won the Democratic primary, is thus fully assured of re-election in November. Knowland's total vote, 2,450,435, was more than any other political candidate ever got in California primaries...
...truce agreement been reached in Korea? Beneath the weird and interminable welter of words at Panmunjom, the reason is plain even to the newest soldier on the front...
...Norse girl, a beauty with "great, sea-grey eyes" and hair "unbelievably golden"; her name was Swan Ygern. Swan healed the Lord Cinqmort of a bloody flux, and so becharmed his wicked soul that he even left off his wenching to eat her beetle puddings under the Weird Oak Tree. She gave her mistress' daughter the dread effigy of St. Uncumber-to whom unwilling wives prayed that he uncumber them of their mates-and when the poor husband failed to die, cast on him the botch of leprosy. She died at last in the lord's dungeons, suffocating...