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Word: weirdly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...screenwriter in the age of Jaws? Would it have occurred to him to give Ahab's sense of injury and obsession with revenge to the whale, to put the moral and psychological shoe on the other flipper? And if he had had the temerity to shop so weird a concept around town, would some producer have had the common sense to tell him, "Back to the custom house, Herman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Shallows | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...government would bog down in the economic and social difficulties facing the country, and thereby prepare the way for a revamped and refreshed S.P.D. to win a clear majority in the 1981 election, without the need for an alliance with the more conservative Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.). "It sounds weird that Schmidt would even think of this course," says one aide, "but such are the circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Facing a Helmut Problem | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

Laissez-faire seems a weird justification for quotas, but that's Harvard's reason for filing an amicus curiae ('friend of the court') brief in a Supreme Court appeal by a California state medical school that has been convicted of discriminating against whites by reserving 16 places for minority group members in a class of 100 members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A community ...of educated... ...men and women | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...park from left-center field. Built in the shape of a giant "A", this electronic leviathan stands about 100 feet high and completely dwarfs everything else in the stadium--a totem constructed in that peculiar fascistic style designed to make human beings feel insignificant. Perhaps that explains the weird passivity of the crowd that night in Southern California. I have never seen such a well-behaved, quiet group of baseball fans. And just as the management had broken them with architectural grandeur, so did it seek to reconstruct them as participants in "the club." The Big "A" scoreboard flashed messages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Angell in the Outfield | 6/14/1977 | See Source »

...sophomore found one of his friends in total disarray this fall after he had dropped acid. "He was having these weird, uncontrollable muscle contractions in his face," he said. "I had to sit near him and calm him down all night, he was so scared. I think someone had slipped him something with the acid...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Getting By With A Little Help From Your Friends | 6/1/1977 | See Source »

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