Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave Mendes, the new man of hope, a hint of even more support. Around the end of November, the general confided, he will publicly proclaim his full retirement from French political life. De Gaulle has retired before, but this time he promised Mendes that he will free the 70-odd Deputies who still remain loyal to him to vote for whom they please. By choosing to do this after showing his "loyalty" to Mendes, De Gaulle in effect would be urging their support of Mendes...
Maurits Cornells Escher (rhymes with mesher) looks like an El Greco cardinal in modern mufti. A gaunt, stooped 56, he wears his white spade beard, sport jacket and grey flannels with the air of a severe fellow who knows what matches what. Odd yet precise matches are Escher's forte. An exhibition of his woodcuts and lithographs in Washington last week featured flights of birds set off against schools of fish, lizards spinning in polyhedrons through the night sky, eerie figures climbing both the top and bottom sides of stairs. His art, as clear and cold as snowflakes...
Like bumper cars at an amusement park, 700-odd pre-medical students needlessly knock each other out every year. Uncertain of medical requirements, they compete intensely in upper-level science courses, to be sure they qualify. The College administration has shown its tacit disapproval of such over-concentration by not setting up a special pre-medical field. But it has never adequately advised pre-meds of scientific requirements, or the advantages of a liberal arts background, and as a result, the pointless duplication of medical school courses in the College has continued...
...family with limited financial resources. But it was unthinkable that Clifford would not go to Rutgers, the alma mater of his father and uncle Clarence. His mother (now a spry 75, still lives in Poughkeepsie) could muster part of the money, and Clifford made the rest by working at odd jobs, which included playing the pipe organ at churches on Sunday. In his junior year, Clifford met Ruth Miriam Smith, a freshman at the New Jersey College for Women. They were married four years later, now have two daughters, a son and one granddaughter, who calls her grandfather...
Sticky End. Irish-born (County Derry) Bill Connor has been Cassandra ever since he started in newspapering on the Mirror in 1935. The son of a civil servant, Cassandra did a variety of odd jobs until Mirror editors, intrigued by his arrogant, self-assured, insulting ways, gave him a job as a columnist. Cassandra ("One of those titles cooked up in a pub") was an overnight success. He also got the paper into very hot water, which is just where the saucy, sensational Mirror likes...