Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bang. To have trumpeted out a brazen declaration of his disloyalty to the creed at this moment might have jarred things too much; but to have left without admitting some error-even if only inefficiency-would have left Georgy Malenkov unreprimanded, in too strong a position. So came his odd confession and the clumsy charade that followed: 1,300 hands raised unquestioningly to accept their premier's resignation...
...swarthy aborigines of Australia are an odd, intelligent lot whose dress (occasional paint and feathers) affords maximum ornamentation with minimum constriction, whose arsenal includes the fabled boomerang and whose mythology is more complicated than Carl Jung? On Sale in the U.S. last week was a handsome book published by the New York Graphic Society and UNESCO (Australia-Aboriginal Paintings; $15) which showed that aboriginal art, too, has surprising qualities...
...thinning line of browsers show so much as a damp eye. Last year saw the passing of some of the nation's oldest shops. Among them: one in Emporia, Kans., aged 59; another in Hanover, N.H., aged 27; another in Brookline, Mass., aged 29. Of the 1,000-odd members in the American Booksellers Association, says its executive secretary, Joseph Duffy, less than half "are worth a book salesman's call." Department stores, book clubs, newsstands, drugstores and supermarkets are forcing the bookshop out of business...
...campaigner for McCarthy-approved candidates, had been promptly picked up and spread by Rumormongers Walter Winchell and Joe McCarthy. Last week Matusow said that the charge originated around Labor Day of 1952, when he was a McCarthy guest in Milwaukee's Schroeder Hotel. McCarthy, who is sensitive in odd places, was annoyed, Matusow recalled, because TIME had said that Joe served warm martinis (TIME, Sept. 8, 1952). Matusow-"just to show off"-made his statement about TIME and, for good measure, the New York Times. McCarthy, says Matusow, suggested that the charge be made public. Matusow now admits that...
...odd aircraft has been flying, rather tentatively, at Niagara Falls, N.Y. over the past few weeks. It looks like a light private plane with a bulky ashcan suspended under each wing, and helicopter skids instead of wheels. Last week Bell Aircraft Corp. told how it works. It is a jet-powered VTOL (vertical take-off and landing), and Bell believes that from it will develop jet fighters and transports that can rise like helicopters from a small patch of ground, then turn themselves into normal-flying airplanes...