Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years I have complained about the weird sound effects that are supposed to represent shells in flight, only to be almost completely inarticulate when asked how they do sound. But "the muted rustle of outgoing shells" is perfect...
...grilling, begun by the chief and continued by such weird characters as a German waiter, brought in because the chief thought he spoke English, lasted all night. At 3 a.m., U.S. Consul General Kenneth Yearns appeared. At dawn, Shea and McCombe were taken to Precinct Station 7, a shabby post on the other side of town, where three burly characters steered them into separate rooms. The consul general went off for help...
...Breast. Dominguez graduated from the student-artist class the day he met Surrealist Andre Breton in 1935. Breton introduced him to the surrealist round table at the Cafe de la Place Blanche, where, in the course of fevered discussions with Picasso and Paul Eluard, he hit on some weird and wonderful notions. Dominguez rose to prominence in the group by such creations as a bas-relief of a horse inextricably tangled with a bicycle, and a "gramophone" with a forefinger in place of a needle and a female breast for a turntable...
...think that I shall never see A poem weird as a world tree A tree to brighten every meal With fragrant boughs of stainless
...deck of an aircraft carrier open "Guided Missile." The success of this test was a revolutionary development in naval warfare. Subsequent scenes show detailed launchings of smaller 'Loon' and 'Dragonfly' rockets from land platforms, along with the radio and radar equipment that controls them. Navy scientists also demonstrate the weird acrobatics of a radio-controlled torpedo plane landing with hatch drawn back, exposing the empty cockpit. When these documentary scenes predominate, as they do in the first half of the picture, "Guided Missile" is interesting and dramatic...