Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Daisy wrote her novels in twopenny notebooks. She borrowed her plots from other writers (as did Shakespeare), her material from the weird and wonderful conduct and conversation of grownups. Settings gave her no trouble, for when visitors came to her Sussex home (her father was a retired War Office official), they made mention of "The Crystal Palace," "The Gaiety Theatre," "Hampton Court"-glamorous place names which Daisy seized and shaped into glittering abodes for the ardent characters to whom her imagination was dedicated...
...which had been wrapped in dark mourning for Talal's murdered father, King Abdullah, once more came alive. Youngsters ran through the streets shouting, "Welcome, King Talal!" Crowds shouted their congratulations, and Bedouins from the desert fired rifles into the air. From the housetops, women set up the weird wail that among Arabs denotes...
...down a 15-inch-gauge, 500-yard track scooted two not-too-reasonable facsimiles of the Emett trains (rechristened "Far Tottering and Oyster Creek"), past weird scenery erected along the line: flat-footed cows, crooked lampposts hung with lobster pots. One train had a candy-striped engine with a balloon-shaped boiler and an elegant, winged smokestack; the other had spidery wheels, a teapot boiler and potted pink geraniums on top. Midgets dressed up as policemen were hired the first week to direct the delighted crowds which flocked about Britain's own Toonerville Trolley...
...docks in two New England ports last week, weird green-painted boats lay shrouded in secrecy. Yard workmen swarmed along their bulging sides, finishing up their hulls, cramming their innards full of deadly equipment. One bore the name Trigger, the other the name Tang. They were the first of six new, fast attack submarines built for the U.S. Navy...
...across the Potomac, Irwin cursed impatiently, talked of his crimes, and threatened to kill "many people" if he was not obeyed. Finally he ordered a stop on a dirt road, and forced the girl to tape her fiancé's hands. Then Irwin raped her. Afterward, with a weird kind of reasonableness, he freed the boy, walked the pair to a gas station and bought them Cokes...