Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odd spectator boats rocked in the mildly choppy seas off Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship one morning last week, four sleek twelve-meters began the first of a series of races. Eight weeks from now, the winner will be named to defend the America's Cup against British challenger Sceptre (TIME, July...
Lebanon's odd little sporadic war did not end last week, but some of the international tension over it abated. To the unconcealed chagrin of the Lebanese government, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold returned from Beirut reporting "no foundation" to the government's charges of "mass infiltration" by the United Arab Republic and accordingly no need for a big U.N. police force to seal off Lebanon's frontiers, although the U.N. observers admitted that they had free access to only eleven of Lebanon's 172 miles of border with Syria. The U.S. Sixth Fleet stopped steaming...
...document: a separation decree issued by the local bishop taking the nearby village of Giglio out of the Sant'Angelo parish. To the 500-odd villagers, this parish chopping seemed intolerable. Sant'Angelo parish had become too big, insisted the bishop. Retorted Emilio Cianfarano, Sant'Angelo's rebel chief: "When you split a family, the whole family suffers." And besides, grumbled the rebels, the bishop had been swayed by Giglio donations of nearly $5,000 toward a new church. Despite the heat caused by such arguments, the villagers failed in their early-morning assault. Before nightfall...
Using the Phone. Yet, in this odd, disorganized and sporadic little war, which had too many undisciplined young volunteers wandering the streets, Lebanese had died in considerable numbers-an estimated 1,400 since the troubles began on May 9. The rebel opposition held out not only in large chunks of the countryside but in the Moslem quarters of Beirut and Tripoli, where their leaders tapped their telephone wires into neighbors' lines and regularly negotiated cease-fires with government forces by telephone. In Tripoli, most Moslem of Lebanese cities, after the week's roughest scrap (eight dead), the rebels...
...negotiating with both CBS and NBC to go transcontinentally berserk on network next fall; he was also ranting affably with moviemakers interested in producing his screen biography. Of the recent turns in his labyrinthine career, Oscar offered a candid self-appraisal: "In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but, at my best, unapproachably great...