Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of this odd burden accrues from a key provision of the twelve-year-old Food for Peace program, allowing the U.S. to sell surplus farm commodities to dollar-poor countries for the recipients' own currency, which remains in the nations of origin. About 20% of the cash is earmarked for U.S. use, and part of this is absorbed by routine operations such as maintaining embassies and aid missions. The other 80%, though U.S.-owned, is reserved for the recipient nation's benefit...
...could bring full-scale war to Southeast Asia if it marched south, Red China is certainly what Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recently called it: "a threat of greatest concern to the U.S." The threat is the more bother some because China's very frustrations make its reactions so odd and unpredictable. But, while the West worries about China, China is building for itself a worrisome string of problems that looks to be nearly as long as the Great Wall...
...last week, many Aussies still could not make head or tail of the new money. Store clerks and customers bickered over conversions, and some stores, having advertised in the new dollars, switched back to sterling when business fell off. Commuters, confused by small-change transactions on buses, tossed their odd pennies out of the windows while crossing Sydney Harbor Bridge. Most of the country's 500,000 coin-handling and tabulating machines, from pay telephones to cash registers, still have to be changed, a move that will be made over the next two years with about $60.5 million...
...more than a fierce embodiment of divine purpose, as stiff and one-dimensional as those who have gone before. The movie sags at the center, weighed down by interminable closeups and sermons. The sound track swells with passages from Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Webern, an African Mass and-as an odd counterpoint to the Nativity-Odetta's recording of Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child. The strength of Pasolini's Gospel rests on those moments when he forgoes static, calendar-art conventions to fill the screen with direct, provocative and eloquent glimpses of what a Biblical film might...
...late, Neil Simon's plays--particularly Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple--have become prototypes of the well-constructed comedy. The elements that Simon uses--the faltering young marriage, the faltering old marriage, and the freethinking teenager or postteenager--also find their way into everybody else's comedies. And J.A. Ross's Happily Never After simply can't resist overdoing a trend...