Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...notion is not so weird as might appear at first thought; El Greco, for one, carried it out successfully. So far, Hancock has failed to do so. His paintings are uneasy compromises that require sympathy in order to give pleasure. But for himself and for what he is 'trying to do-which includes seeing the world-the lanky, shaggy-haired artist has been finding sympathy all across the continent...
...York, in Washington, in San Juan, Government agents began a high-pressure investigation of the weird assassination plot. Government agents roused by teletype combed Manhattan's Spanish Harlem; they picked up a covey of Puerto Rican Nationalists, arrested the wives of the two gunmen. Both women were dry-eyed and defiant. Cried Rosa Collazo to her three daughters: "Hold up your heads. Don't be ashamed...
...English Language he excoriates the light-fingered journalists, heavy-handed politicos and potato-mouthed bureaucrats who, through carelessness or snobbery, are maiming the English language. In The Prevention of Literature he baits, hooks and dries the doublethink Communist intellectuals. Unlike most American criticism, which is written in a weird graduate school code, Orwell's literary essays are directed, without condescension or pedantry, to the non-expert who reads for pleasure...
...ribbons on the antlers of his pet deer, explained: "Without these, all of 'em would shoot at him; with these not more'n ten dudes'll kill him at the same time." Seasoned huntsmen worried about "sound-shots." Explained one: "A sound-shot is a weird guessing game invented by city men. They hear something in the brush and shoot. Then they look to see what they got. It's just as apt to be their old lady as an animal...
LEOPOLDVILLE, Belgian Congo (Oct. 24)--In this weird land of drumbeat and mamba, chances still appear slim for finding a replacement seer before Saturday...