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Word: weirdly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard has lost five straight at The Stadium. They haven't lost on the road since 1974, or before anyone who calls himself an undergraduate was enrolled here. Unless, that is, you're '77-4, '76-3, or something weird like that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sacrificing on the Road to Cornell | 10/11/1977 | See Source »

Mosca, the Fox's Fly, is the oily instrument of his misdeeds. As played by Ben Kingsley, he is curiously modern, the unctuous image of the Madison Avenue p.r. man. "Mosca, this was thy invention?" asks Volpone after a show by his weird trio of dwarf, hermaphrodite and eunuch. "If it please my patron," he answers. "Not else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Rare Fox | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...Williams, 29, an ex-junkie, scuffs the streets of New York City as a panhandler. A former student at North Carolina Central University, he says that he was thrown out because he took part in a student demonstration. Williams' lament: "My values are gone. You're looking at a weird dude, a dude on the borderline of insanity. Every day, it doesn't seem to get better?only worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Underclass | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...told him I didn't want to see him again. He was strange. Another time I was on Staten Island, going to a party. I saw him. I said, 'What are you doing here?' He said, 'I'm watching you.' It was very weird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Man Hunt For Son of Sam Goes On | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...Case appeared and demanded that their son be "Deprogrammed" and his mind washed free of "all that silly mumbo jumbo" some weird religious group had pumped into it. "He's 37 years old and he's still not married," wailed Mrs. Case. "They've just made a zombie out of him, kneeling down all the time, speaking in a foreign tongue." The son turns out, of course, to be a Catholic priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Fernwood and the Gall | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

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