Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the weird scoring system used to determine the New England championship, the loss to M.I.T. may cost Harvard the title. Teams are rated either A, B, C, or D on their records. A tie with a C or D team--and M.I.T. is likely to wind up in one of those categories--gives a team fever points than even a loss to an A squad...
...deciding constitutional questions commonly means weighing competing values. The balance is often delicate, as the California Supreme Court has just shown in answering yes to a weird question: Can a man beat a narcotics rap by pinning...
...played grand opera endlessly on the phonograph, loved to read the classics aloud to tiny Lady Bird. She scandalized people for miles around by entertaining Negroes in her home, and once even started to write a book about Negro religious practices, called Bio Baptism. Naturally, most folks thought Minnie weird and standoffish. Says a longtime friend of Lady Bird's, Mrs. Eugenia Lassater of Henderson, Texas: "Mrs. Taylor was a cultured woman. But she didn't consort with Karnack people...
Central Africa's weird little holy war went into its third terrifying week. On one side was the government of Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda; on the other the spear-bearing, fanatic followers of Prophetess Alice Lenshina, whose hybrid cult mixes white magic with the teachings of the Church of Scotland...
This has been the trouble all along in the Christian Democrats' weird amalgamation with the Socialists. With one ideology clashing head on with another, there has been simple deadlock. One result: an economy in serious trouble. This might seem a domestic Italian matter, but it inevitably rubbed off on the U.S., for it was the State Department which from the start pressed the Christian Democrats to make their dubious plunge into the apertura a sinistra...