Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Odd, perhaps unparalleled in history, was this obsession with danger by leaders of a nation as strong as the U.S. The beaten and the besieged naturally think in terms of survival, not of opportunity. For them, there is good reason to forget that, in human way to concentrate on survival is an almost sure way not to for No such excuse is available for the unbeaten, for those with wide freedom of action, for those who stand at the summit of power and responsibility. The U.S. still stands there...
...night. Seoul's Capitol Club, where,, two weeks ago a plate of potato chips had sold for $2.50, was dark and deserted. In its stead, a few blocks away, stood Seoul's last-ditch nightspot, the Consolation Club, which advertised "Fifty Beautiful Women Fifty." Inside, a dozen odd bedraggled beauties gyrated round a scarred dance floor, their swirling Korean skirts revealing singularly unattractive expanses of olive-drab G.I. long Johns...
Ulbricht & Co. predict that they will oust 25% of the party's functionaries, 10% of its rank & file members, be left with a tighter, handier Communist Party. But if Stalin knew what he was talking about, the saddle was still likely to be an odd...
...have been his bloody, surrealistic congress of freaks called Phenomena and Hide-and-Seek-a vast, autumnal tree with embryos and sick-looking children half hidden among its leaves (TIME, Nov. 9, 1912). Last week Tchelitchew jolted Manhattan's syth Street once more with an exhibition of 50-odd transparent heads...
...Graduate Student Council last night shelved a petition, containing 180-odd signatures, for revision of the Graduate School's parietal rules. The petition appeared on the bulletin board of Harkness Commons in December, following a Law School Record editorial on parietal regulations...