Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than not, gave voice to the same fear: They won't let him live. At the first word of the shooting, a reporter with Kennedy workers in San Francisco wrote in his notebook: They seemed almost to expect it. There is grief. But more, there is a kind of weird acceptance. Horrible to see. They've been through assassinations before...
...moved up Massachusetts Avenue towards the Charles River, the first warnings came. "We'll see a lot of weird people in Cambridge. We've got our hippies, we've got our flower children just like anywhere else. We've got a lot of traffic too, our streets were designed as cowpaths...
...haphazardly and in quirks through the last years of the 19th century and through the first third of this century. The jumble of buildings, none of them new, each seemingly done in a different architectural mode without concern for the total environment, and all of them connected by a weird system of tunnels, reflects the different plans that different generations have proposed to fulfill the hospital's prime purpose: the service of the indigent sick...
Heart of Hué. Some 25 miles to the southwest of Hue lies the A Shau Valley, a lush, weird world of fogs and swirling mists during ten months of the year. Some 25 miles long, the valley floor is 2,000 ft. above sea level. The jagged, spiny peaks on either side rise 5,000 ft. to 6,000 ft. and are covered with a triple-canopy jungle 100 ft. tall. Ever since a U.S. Special Forces camp was overrun in the valley in March of 1966, only furtive U.S. reconnaissance patrols have set foot in it. The North...
While proven classroom performance remains the best ticket to college, other qualities can also turn the trick - a wild sense of humor, a weird hobby, or almost anything that sets a student off from the ordinary. Anxious to tap un usual attributes that may not show up in a high school senior's grades or test scores, college admissions officials are relying more heavily on references from school principals and personal inter views with the applicant himself. In selecting next year's freshmen, the nation's leading universities took extra pains to seek out students who, says...