Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there's no doubt about it. Dwight D. Eisenhower is a changed man today." To the studious newspaper reader and radio listener, it seemed that everybody and everybody's brother, aunt, cousin and cook were prattling happily about the New Eisenhower. It was an odd business because, in point of obvious fact, the New Eisenhower had been around for quite a while-and his presence was apparent over months past to anyone willing to look...
British Hints. Britain's suspicious mood reflected economic divisions as well as political differences. Watching the steady growth of economic ties and the nascent sense of "European identity" in the six Common Market nations, Britain increasingly feels itself odd man out in Western Europe, and considers this not the result of British unwillingness to pay the price of European membership but the fault of Adenauer's and De Gaulle's alliance. Prime Minister Macmillan, seeing Ike alone at Chequers, was expected to spend some of his time deploring not Khrushchev's behavior but De Gaulle...
...Gaullist party organized by Soustelle-swept to an overwhelming majority in the Assembly of the Fifth Republic, De Gaulle continued to regard Soustelle as too controversial to have conspicuous power. The premiership went to Gaullist Lawyer Michel Debré, a relative unknown; for Soustelle there was an agglomeration of odd jobs-including the Sahara. Mockingly, some Frenchmen dubbed Soustelle "the Minister of the Future," and when in last March's municipal elections he failed to win the mayoralty of Lyon-which would have given him a local political power base-many pundits concluded that his star was setting...
...want to be with ordinary people, share their lives and be one of them," says tough, square-jawed John Strong, 43. For years he has lived in slums, worked in factories. To most Church of England clerics he is an odd fellow, "honest but peculiar." Reason: Worker Strong is also a fulltime minister...
Among the odd cults that nourish in the French Congo, perhaps the oddest of all is the Matswa cult, which takes its name from a Congolese who served as a French army sergeant in World War I. Preaching passive resistance against the French, Andre Matswa persuaded his followers not to pay taxes, accept identity cards or cultivate peanuts as ordered by the French. He died of dysentery in a French Congo prison in 1942. His disciples, deifying him, hold that he is still alive and will return one day to the Congo to drive the whites out. In their legend...