Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reading or eating breakfast in bed. And the high footboard that fences the covers in. As for the overstuffed chairs: I'll vote for them over the scratchy straw, sagging canvas and thin veneer of today's contour sitting devices. I'd like to know whose odd contours shaped them...
...kulaks.* Some Communist sources say that Khrushchev was at one point voted out of his party secretaryship by a combination of Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovich, Bulganin and Voroshilov. Other sources say that he stalled any formal vote and insisted that he could legally be removed only by the full 130-odd-man Central Committee. In the Central Committee, Zhukov showed that he was backing Khrushchev, and everyone else took cover; the opposition was crushed by a unanimous vote...
Pounds into Platinum. For more than three generations of Sunday-supplement readers, the Aga Khan was a fabulous figure who managed to combine the affluence and honors of an Oriental potentate with the predilections of a European playboy. His bland face and portly (240-odd Ibs.) figure, resembling those of a large and benevolent turtle, were constantly caught by news cameras-at the Royal Enclosure at Ascot, on a fashionable beach at Cannes, at a lavish masquerade ball in Venice, or amidst panoplies of Oriental splendor as devoted followers balanced his weight in gifts of diamonds, gold or platinum...
...final testing of power came at a special meeting of the powerful, 130-odd-man party Central Committee, which lasted from June 22 to June 29. According to Polish Communists (who often have a good pipeline to the Kremlin), Molotov may even have sought the meeting, confident that his side had the top hand. Khrushchev proposed that the first item of the agenda should be the current situation of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Molotov countered with the proposal, meant to put Khrushchev on the defensive, that the international position be considered, "in the light of attempted imperialist...
...year-old star of the show absorbed 30-odd last-minute script changes, then sat calmly joshing with an Independence crony, Tom Evans, while the TV people fussed and stewed. On camera at last, he led the way through the library's long corridors, discoursed on its treasures and memories, exuded a candidate's charm, his speech colloquial and homely, his accent as broad as the Missouri River, his smile glowing and real. Excerpts: ¶ On how to recommend laws: "Well, sir, you write 'em down in a message, you try to think things...