Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stories of William Sansom. Field trips into a story spinner's weird world of gentle stranglers and murderous loves, beasts who think like men and men who dream themselves into beasts...
...Beast. Weeks ago, Atlantis II, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, lowered "The Beast," a weird M.I.T.-designed rig. At the end of the Beast's 9,000-ft. cable, a small echo sounder measured its distance from the bottom. A pair of powerful strobe lights flashed at six-second intervals, and two cameras took pictures. In the eternal darkness at 8,000 ft., they needed no shutters; they merely advanced their film in time for the next flash from the strobes...
...Stories of William Sansom. Field trips into a weird story-spinner's world, peopled with gentle stranglers and murderous loves, beasts who think like men and men who dream themselves into beasts...
...hottest competition now is in the frontier science of cryogenics-Greek for "creation of icy cold." Working with chilled liquid gases, the three companies have found that materials behave in weird and wondrous ways in the icy world of low, low temperatures. By slowing the movement of electrons and thus reducing resistance to electricity to almost nothing, the extreme cold of liquid nitrogen, for example, gives an electric magnet four times or more the usual pull and makes a light bulb shine 20 times brighter. Linde has also found that whole blood and body tissues can be preserved indefinitely when...
...This weird moment of chaos, when France almost lost a war by losing control of her exhausted troops, is the subject of Dare Call It Treason, the latest in the recent flood of histories about World War I. Treason is all the more remarkable be cause its author is a complete amateur, a flooring-materials salesman who wrote the book (his first) in the children's playroom of his home in Glen Ridge, N.J., and even taught himself French by pasting scraps of a French grammar on file cards which he carried with him on selling trips...