Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first to modernize the legal definition of criminal insanity (1953), to hold that an indigent whose court-appointed lawyer has botched his job is entitled to a new trial (1963), to ring new safeguards around the use of co-defendant confessions at joint trials (1965), and to defy the odd Supreme Court rule that police may not seize "mere" evidence, such as incriminating letters, unless it is also the loot or tools of a crime, or the means of escape...
...Offis Boy. Under Seltzer's guidance, the Press successfully urged the rebuilding of much of Cleveland: a new airport, a "shoreway" along Lake Erie, a community college, and a transformation of downtown slums into office buildings and broad plazas. The Press has appealed to Cleveland's 40-odd ethnic groups by sending a "nationalities editor" abroad to file stories on Clevelanders' relatives still living in the old country. And editors take turns manning newsroom phones to answer readers' queries on everything from how to change a diaper to how to call an ambulance...
...isolated town in the hills north of Africa's Lake Victoria would seem like an odd site for an international cancer conference. And the acute leukemia that now ranks as a major killer of U.S. children aged one to 14 is so rare in Africa that it would seem to have little in common with Burkitt's lymphoma, a cancer of the jaw that is prevalent among children in tropical Africa. Yet last week top researchers from eleven countries journeyed to Kampala, the capital of Uganda, to pool their knowledge of both diseases. Some temperate-zone doctors suspect...
...Reoviruses were so named in 1959 by Cincinnati's Polio Vaccine Developer Albert B. Sabin from the initials for "respiratory, enteric, orphan," because they are associated with odd sniffling and diarrheal disorders in men and monkeys but cause no known natural disease...
Last but not least, Wall Street is perhaps the most superstitious of all business neighborhoods. And the omens look good: according to the lore of the Street, when the little odd-lotter starts buying heavily, the market will soon take a dive. But when the odd-lotter sells, the market will rise. Right now, he is selling. Anyway, all such tea leaves aside, the Dow-Jones average seems certain to pass the 1000 mark within days or weeks...