Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ODD COUPLE. The comic insight of Playwright Neil Simon gives hilarious credibility to a household of two husbands who find out-by living together-why their wives couldn't stand to live with them...
...lemon on an orange tree, it's still not an orange." Yet the Democratic Party has never discouraged expedient hybridization-provided, at least, that oranges and lemons continue to hang from the same tree and wear the grower's label. If, on the contrary, the odd offshoot insists on permanent identification as a new species, it invites pruning. "Break Through!" Thus, in recent months, a host of top Republicans, from House Leader Ford to Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, have taken pains to dissociate the G.O.P. from the extremist John Birch Society...
...ODD COUPLE. The comic insight of Playwright Neil Simon gives hilarious credibility to a household of two husbands who find out - by living together - why their wives couldn't stand to live with them...
...defenders died in their bunkers. At the main fort, U.S. Special Forces Captain Harold M. Moore radioed for help. Soon flare ships were splashing naked light over enemy positions as the Reds' recoilless rifles slammed round after round through the camp's longhouses. The 2,300-odd montagnard women and children living at Plei Me disappeared underground for a week-long hibernation. All, that is, but the older boys-twelve years and more-who grabbed carbines nearly as tall as themselves, strapped grenades to their frail waists, and ran to the rifle pits...
Another important Tillich tenet is that such potent terms as God, Christ, Resurrection are symbols that should not be mistaken for the unknowable things for which they stand-a distinction that sometimes led him into such odd locutions as "the God above God." On this score, he was the despair of the orthodox, who always wanted to know whether he thought that the tomb was really empty on that first Easter morning. When Pope Pius XII defined the doctrine of the Virgin Mary's bodily assumption into Heaven, one eminent Jesuit friend of Tillich's was looking forward...