Word: weirdest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depressed. For one thing, I saw the weirdest thing I've seen in four years of avid Harvard sports spectating this afternoon at the Heptagonal cross country meet in New York. For another, I saw the second weirdest thing in the closing seconds of last week's football game...
Okay. You've spent a week packing up all your belongings, tearfully saying goodbye to your boy/girl friend (as the case may be), psyching yourself up for the plunge into the big time, and now you, too, are ready to play one of Harvard's oldest and weirdest games. It's called Freshman Week, and everyone in the Class of 1982 can join in the fun. Freshman Week, like death, taxes, and papers, is one of those things that you just can't avoid. So you might as well make the best of it. Out advice...
...inflatable woman. The second one is Haldeman's explanation of how Mike Wallace came to pay him $25,000 to go on 60 Minutes and stonewall in 1975: It seems that Wallace saw Haldeman leaning out of a hotel window towards Pennsylvania Ave muttering that, "Nixon was the weirdest man ever to live in the White House...
...argues that Nixon's character assets ("intelligence, analytical ability, judgment, shrewdness, courage, decisiveness and strength") outweighed his flaws, he by no means minimizes those faults. He variously describes Nixon as having a "dirty, mean, base side" and "a terrible temper," being "coldly calculating, devious, craftily manipulative" and "the weirdest man ever to live in the White House...
...language. When they do, ungrammatical sign makers will doubtless be hard at work. As they did in 1977, chain stores will offer "bargain's" and "giant sales" will not have a single giant to sell. Banks will still offer their tautological "free gifts." Perhaps the year's weirdest notice was spotted in a Toledo restaurant: "Shirts, socks and shoes must be worn to be served...