Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times the city's main thoroughfares looked like the site of a weird Grand Prix, a kind of motorcade to nowhere. Climbing aboard bicycles, pedicabs, Hondas, mini-Jeeps, taxis, small trucks-anything that would move -Saigonese sped up and down broad boulevards lined by huge tamarind trees. The hot dry air turned blue with exhaust smoke as the procession wheeled endlessly past the sidewalk cafés where red-bereted French paratroopers and homesick G.I.s once sat, watching the lissome Vietnamese girls stroll...
...Hovey Kemp, who helped the varsity to victory in San Diego, will be back to warm the number-five seat. Parker had farmed Kemp out to the J.V. for the Brown race, a switch which spurred one bewildered oarsman to say of Parker. "They don't call him ol' Weird Harold for nothing...
...Parker was far from weird as he calculated Saturday's probable scenario. "Harvard has good speed out of the start," Parker said. "We ought to be able to stay close of MIT off the line. After that, it will be a question of which crew can race it better...
...week by Saigon police was silenced for attempting to discuss Montagnard defection to the NLF. Maybe that isn't so; in any case, other reporter haven't discussed the Montagnards much. In general, what the American papers have been best on is not political news of any sort by weird vignettes end horrifying statistics--gruesome descriptions of the refugees' flight and photographs that are almost funny, like the last 'few murders in an Elizabethan tragedy...
...elder league opens its centennial season with hopes of bringing back World Series honors from the mighty nemesis of the American League, the Oakland As. The National League's western division will hold few surprises for enthusiasts of the grand hole game, but the Swami of Swat predicts weird happenings in the eastern race...