Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ODD COUPLE. On leave from unhappy marriages, Walter Matthau and Paul Dooley try to set up a masculine ménage à deux; their farcical failure makes for highly successful comedy...
...Louisiana, "it is my honor and privilege to move that the first session of the 89th Congress do now adjourn." The clock stood at 12:52 a.m.; the Senate had quit two minutes earlier. To a chorus of yahoos, Speaker John McCormack banged his gavel, and the 40-odd members still on the floor headed jubilantly for the exits...
Latter-Day Boswell. As Press Secretary, Moyers has provided a gusher of information where once there had been an erratic trickle. Some reporters have even complained that there was far too much, particularly after a weekend at the LBJ Ranch, when Moyers deluged them with 40-odd handouts hymning Administration triumphs ranging from a campaign to reduce wasted space in post offices to a wildlife preserve in Maryland. Moyers totally lacks the histrionic instincts of a Pierre Salinger, the avuncular authority of a Jim Hagerty. But after only 3½ months on the job, he is widely rated...
...ODD COUPLE. On leave from unhappy marriages, Walter Matthau and Paul Dooley try to set up a masculine menage a deux; their farcical failure makes for highly successful comedy...
Salvaging Nasakom. To Indonesians, long accustomed to President Sukarno's friendship with Peking, it seemed odd indeed that Red China could be so viciously maligned. There was nothing really odd about it, for the anti-Chinese campaign simply marked the determination of the army under Defense Minister Nasution to wipe out all traces of Aidit and his Partai Kommunis Indonesia. Nasution would probably succeed, for he and his generals seemed in firm command of the country...