Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's more, Ambler has something that I've never encountered in a one-author marathon. Most prolific scribes have annoying catch-phrases that they use over and over, or favorite weird words. You get to feel you're on to them. But Ambler has the effortless writing skill of a British education. His style is sure and undistracting--it goes down easier than lemonade in August. By the gallon...
...humor and stabilized by Gable's patient amusement with her flights. Both appear to have been unpretentious people, genuinely surprised-and moved-by their luck at finding one another in the marital climate of haute Hollywood in the late '30s. Others, alternately freezing and frying in that weird weather, were apparently much comforted by the example Gable and Lombard...
...what ruled the roost at Innsbruck, Grenoble and Sapporo were those weird foreign sports, athletic events I could never comprehend. What do those middle two men do in the four-man bobsled? How does one ever learn to ski jump? I imagine one is either very good after the first jump or else very dead...
Bolting off the starting line like a jack rabbit in each of her races-1,500 (silver), 500 (gold) and 1,000 (bronze) meters-she drove through the all-important turns in near perfect form. "It feels weird to win a gold medal," declared Sheila, who had a bad cold and a hacking cough. "I felt this rush through my whole body when I knew...
...Further shocks await them. They are appalled when the urge to free the turtles grows into a tidal compulsion. William complains: "Whatever this awful thing is that I've got myself into it's my thing and I've got to do it alone with that weird lady...