Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first-rate biography of the odd but dazzling fish who was Victorian England's shining knight (TIME...
...Odd Point of View." Among many scientists Oppenheimer is held in high esteem, and even awe. Yet a number of his colleagues came before the security board, in answer to subpoenas, and testified against him. Among them was Dr. Luis Alvarez, professor of physics at the University of California, who was on the staff at Los Alamos during World War II (he helped develop the detonating mechanism for the atomic bomb). In September 1949, after the Russians exploded an atomic bomb, Dr. Alvarez and Dr. Lawrence decided to push for development of the H-bomb. Nearly all of the scientists...
...hydrogen bomb, and the main reason he gave for this . . . was that if we built a hydrogen bomb, then the Russians would build a hydrogen bomb, whereas if we did not build a hydrogen bomb, then the Russians would not build a hydrogen bomb. I found this such an odd point of view that I don't understand it to this...
...Belgian pavilion offered Surrealist René Magritte, whose charm lies in such odd notions as painting a night scene under a noonday sky. Less appealing was another major Belgian entry. Surrealist Paul Delvaux, whose careful rendering of a Crucifixion and a Pietá peopled entirely by skeletons seemed in needlessly bad taste...
...Director William M. Mann hopes that they will thrive, but he is not too confident. Sea otters have never been exhibited before, partly because of their rarity and partly because the odd conditions of their natural habitat are hard to simulate. They live in the great beds of kelp that fringe the shores of the North Pacific, where they lead an easy and highly specialized life, floating much of the time on their backs with their forearms folded over their chests. Whenever they feel hungry, all they need do is roll over and dive to the bottom for sea urchins...