Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girls in 509 (by Howard Teichmann) are an aristocratic, violently Republican battle-ax and her niece (Peggy Wood and Imogene Coca), who, for the 25 years since F.D.R. went to the White House, have been hiding in a decaying family hotel under assumed names, indulging in weird hobbies, and barricading themselves against possible intruders. When at last someone manages to intrude, the girls turn out to be much less Republicans than know-nothings; they swear by the Literary Digest, are amazed that the banks have reopened and that there is a different Man in the White House. And they...
...tumult and the shouting and the innumerable suits and countersuits in the law courts waned, so did Marie Stopes's sense of scientific precision. She got a few weird ideas about how the marriage bed should be placed (always in a north-south direction, "in tune with magnetic currents"). Last winter she became ill, attributed it vaguely to "radioactivity in the atmosphere." Last week, widowed since 1949, she died in Surrey...
...Enright of feeding him answers in advance (TIME, Sept. 8). The tape brought no such conclusive evidence. Instead, it did something that was possibly more important. It offered a fascinating look behind the gleaming isolation booths and the golden M.C. grins into a back room of greed, craftiness and weird emotions...
What were the airmen doing in the mountains? Late in July a seven-man team from the U.S.A.F. School of Aviation Medicine reached the rock-strewn slopes and box canyons of Colorado's Mt. Evans (14,260 ft.) and there staged some weird exercises. Led by a tall, lean and weathered man in Alpine shoes, long, green wool stockings and climbing knickers, the airmen went on ever-lengthening hikes (from 90 min. to ten hours), ran up and down the steep slopes above timberline, leaped from boulder to boulder. Purpose: Air Force wanted to know whether the human organism...
Among Arab leaders, Iraq's late Nuri asSaid probably led all the rest in the bitterness of his public excoriations of Israel. But fate appears to have played a last weird trick on the murdered Iraqi strongman. Out of Jerusalem last week came a strange story: Nuri Pasha's only survivor may be a 16-year-old Jewish boy now living in an Israeli border kibbutz...