Word: weirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountain eyrie, 4,500 ft. up in the Alaouite Mountains and built like a Damascus house, TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder visited him, was treated to a gut-busting luncheon, long complimentary speeches, weird music and the sight of seven of his village lovelies prancing mightily as they sang in a throaty, minor key. Suleiman, despite his 18 wives, his 14 children and the fact that doctors give him only two more years because of fatty degeneration of the heart, beamed contentedly. Cabled Correspondent Zinder of Suleiman's lair: "Grim hills step giantlike across rich, fruitful valleys, their sides scarred...
...week many a suburban Johannesburger twitched and turned in his last few minutes of troubled sleep, awoke alarmed at the unmistakable rhythm of hoarse-voiced jungle chanting. Early risers discovered the source: 20,000 black men, women & children, packed gutter to gutter on the Pretoria road, marching to wild, weird Bantu songs and war cries...
...time Congress was disillusioned about the farmer. In early youth I learned a piano piece called The Happy Farmer. Where the composer picked up such a weird inspiration, I can't imagine. The farmer is hardworking, honest, pays his debts. But he is a congenital pessimist, finds conditions always bad, and blames everything on the Government-including rainfall...
...madness some of the Japanese armed themselves only with bayonets tied to sticks, but most of them had rifles and plenty of ammunition and pockets full of hand grenades. Some soldiers heard the attackers shouting: "Japanese boys kill American boys! Japanese drink blood like wine!" But for their wild, weird screams, the Japs might have killed many more Americans in their sleep. The Japs brought 40-ounce sake wine bottles with them...
...Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. (The episode is so elusively treated that a naive reader might conclude that she had been in naval intelligence ever since.) Then she moved to New York, married-a Yale man of good family working in a bank-lived in uptown Manhattan in a weird apartment, began to write magazine articles, and found a brief breathing space in life...