Word: freak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sophomore Monk Aiello scored on a freak shot which bounced off a defense man's chest and into the goal at 13:43, to tie the count again and set up Yost's winner...
...enough. He began to write slick-magazine stories-"the kind that not even a Texan would brag about." But he was serious enough to take correspondence courses in story writing from Columbia University. Nothing much came of it for a long time, though Cooper discovered that "I have a freak memory-I can remember indefinitely anything that is not important." Of his prizewinning novel he says: "I'm still amazed. I'd resigned myself to years of shipping it around." What is he thinking of calling it? Cooper points to the attic trunk where he used to hide...
Finally Sir Hugh got through to Dr. Pierres, and in an eight-minute conversation got the news: Don Stephen Senanayake, 67, Prime Minister of the four-year-old Dominion of Ceylon, had been seriously injured in a freak accident. During his morning horseback ride, his mount had bolted; after sticking to the horse for more than a mile, he had fallen off, somersaulted, landed on his head and never regained consciousness. Sir Hugh instructed Dr. Pierres how to carry on until he himself arrived in Ceylon...
...freak ice-skating accident...
...Bullpups finally went down to an undefeated Princeton squad, by a count of 13 to 7. On the preceding Saturday, an improved Dartmouth freshman squad had fought Yale to a 6 to 6 deadlock. Although the Yardlings outclassed the Indians in losing to them 2 to 0 on a freak safety, the team that met Yale was considerably improved...