Word: weirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hurtling Fugitives. One of the strangest manifestations of this unparalleled tragedy of blood was the weird fugitives who, shouting "Sanctuary!", suddenly hurtled out of the Communist night that had covered the activities of many of them and sought refuge in capitalist countries. Among the more distinguished refugees were Ignace Reiss (assistant chief of the West European Section of the NKVD), General Walter Ginsberg Krivitsky (chief of the West European Section of the Red Army's Military Intelligence) and Alexander Barmine. Reiss's body was found riddled with 15 bullets on a lonely road in Switzerland. Krivitsky...
...From the weird, camouflaged concrete of a Jap-built field the troop carriers took off. With them went Colonel Felix ("Snatch") Dupont's supply gliders (being used for the first time in the Philippines), loaded with pack howitzers, jeeps, radios and supplies. Over the flatlands at Luzon's tip the parachutists blossomed from their transports. Gliders slid into the high grass unopposed. Said wit nesses : like maneuvers on the village green...
...heaviest-Gene Lockhart and Andy Devine acting like boys of eight-the fantasy is both unfunny and mawkish. At its best-a flock of ancient socialites helplessly jiving Wagner's Evening Star-it has a weird, wild, death-dance vitality which shows how tame most deliberate surrealism...
...10th Mountain Division headquarters in Caporetto, all was Yank efficiency: maps, intelligence reports, crisp uniforms, shiny equipment, freshly shaved chins, in weird contrast to what we had seen on the road coming...
Like other well-trained herbalists, Dr. Chang follows old texts going back to the foundation of Chinese medicine more than 4,000 years ago. Besides a thousand & one herbs, he uses concoctions of such weird ingredients as the gallstones of horses, rats' foetuses pickled in oil, powdered snakes, powdered horns, musk...