Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Built-in Boost. A principal reason for the $15 billion-odd increase over this year's initial figure is, of course, the rising cost of the war in Viet Nam. That alone is expected to account for some $6 billion or $7 billion of the increase, swelling the Defense Department's expenditures next year to about $60 billion compared with this year's $53 billion to $54 billion. (In addition, Johnson will ask Congress for a $12.5 billion supplemental appropriation for the Viet Nam war, none of which will be counted in the new budget; he intends...
Charles de Gaulle has a contemptuous phrase for the Cabinet-shuffling by which French governments were once formed: "the sterile games of yesterday." Thus it seemed somehow odd for De Gaulle himself to be indulging in that sort of thing. All last week, in a process familiar during the days of the Fourth Republic, official black Citroëns shuttled to and from the beige stone prime-ministerial residence on the Rue de Grenelle bearing nervously hopeful politicians to discuss posts in a new Cabinet. De Gaulle, operating through his faithful Premier, Georges Pompidou, was at work selecting a Cabinet...
Girls applying for the off-campus permission had to write a letter explaining their reasons. Most said that they had outside activities, which kept them up to "odd hours" or away from the Radcliffe quad at meal times. One girl said, "I don't like feeling that I'm a student 24 hours a day. I hate the dorm atmosphere, even in an off-campus house...
...politically sensitive job of top U.S. adviser to South Viet Nam's armed forces and boss of the 6,000-odd U.S. advisers attached to Vietnamese units...
...After a series of disjointed misadventures, he ends up drowned, a wisp of seaweed hanging from his sad little foot. What sets Author Mackay apart from her despairing friends, however, is that there is a giggle buried deep in the center of her sadness, and it bubbles up at odd moments-such as the moment when a husband grows so incensed at his wife for feeding him canned food that he throws her down and tries to open her head with an old-fashioned can opener. Sadly, the injured wife ends up in an insane asylum...