Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odd predicament, the U.N. Command this week seemed to have but four courses to follow. The U.N. could...
...everything was going much like the day before when thousands had marched through the streets in protest, and surprisingly forced Otto Grotewohl's Red government to rescind a work speedup decree. An odd, almost festive air made it even harder to believe that an unheard of thing was happening. Children on bicycles circled in front of the marchers. Even when the first Russians rolled into sight in armored cars and open infantry trucks to back up the nervous and confused People's Police (Volkspolizei or Vopos), the marchers grinned and whistled and jeered. An East German perched shakily...
...fist, smooth and rounded on one side and cut into rough facets on the other. At first he thought they were natural accidents, but when he found 300 of them in one small area, he decided that no accident could have brought them together. Geologists backed him up; the odd stones, they said, had been shaped artificially, not by natural forces...
Dissection in Secret. Curator A. (for Alpheus) Hyatt Mayor chose 100-odd prints and paintings calculated to fascinate both students and medical men. Until Pollaiuolo, the only artists who seriously studied anatomy were the Greeks. Since dissection was forbidden by their religion, they carefully watched athletes in the gymnasia. Medieval art was less concerned with reproducing correct anatomical detail than with expressing the subject's inner light. Dissection was still frowned upon in those days (though doctors often carried it on in secret...
...getting elected, Johnson picked up, as most politicians do at one time or another, some political scars. Cynics, noting Lyndon's narrow margin of victory, pointed to the odd voting procedure in Jim Wells County, in the bailiwick of notorious Political Boss George Parr. Originally, Jim Wells turned in a count of 1,786 for Johnson, 769 for Coke Stevenson. Then, six days later, the county reported a corrected count: Johnson 1,988, Stevenson 770. The correction put Johnson over. Stevenson charged fraud, but the polling list and ballots from Precinct 13 (where Stevenson said the fraud occurred) could...