Word: weirdness
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...Sometimes [other teams] play special defenses," McBride said. "Cornell played a weird defense. They brought one girl back and set up a zone. I'd rather play against that kind of defense than have one girl guarding me all the time...
...have an uneasy suspicion that the Kremlin may have come up with devices that they are not yet aware of. Executives in private companies that produce snooping equipment for the U.S. Government are under strict orders to keep their mouths shut, but they do provide some insight into the weird world of electronic espionage and its impressive technology...
Lynch denounces societal skepticism, saying that these powers of visualization are not weird, but are powers everyone possesses, though few recognize them. "People equate the word `psychic' with the occult or witchcraft when it's simply that energy that we create on a daily basis. We all do psychic things, we just don't call it that," she says...
...changed channels to catch a Miller spot, which proudly advertised: "Miller's Made The American Way." This really seemed weird. Why do some marketeers invent strange foreign-sounding names like Frusen Gladje when their products are such American staples as ice cream, while other enterprising capitalists like the Miller people focus on their product's domestic origin? And why do this for beer, when it is generally acknowledged that Bavaria is the beer capital of the known universe...
...wrong--twice. Peter Prescott, of course, reformed Volcano Suns into one of Boston's best and most experimental bands. And the other two members of that primitive trio (guitarist Gary Waleik and bassist Steve Michener) have formed Big Dipper, a group with more obvious roots and less fervor for weird than Volcano Suns, but on the same track nonetheless...