Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cult; their ouster from the government would obliterate the Benis as a political power. Says Omo-Osagie: "If we are pushed out, the Ibos will come and dominate the place." His followers characterize Owegbe as nothing more than a masonic society: one describes it as a "group of Odd Fellows." The Oba himself, 66-year-old Akenzua II, at first opposed Owegbe, now gives it his tacit support and maintains inside his palace one of the most impressive juju shrines in Benin...
...biggest casts anyone ever saw. Recovering after a successful operation at Rochester, Minn.'s Methodist Hospital to correct a painful condition called "hammertoes" (in which the toes curl under the foot), Reedy clomped over for a chat with the boss, said he would be back puttering at odd jobs in the White House this week, consulting the President on labor matters and appointments. Asked how he felt with those plaster elephant legs, George answered with a press secretary's skill: "Just great...
Casual users of libraries are hardly aware of it, but library professionals and their more conscientious clients know about it all too well. They call it the "information explosion," and it has precipitated an odd paradox: most of the nation's public libraries have neither the money to buy nor the space to house the books and periodicals that a growing and insatiable public wants to read, while the technical disciplines-chiefly the sciences-have turned loose such a Niagara of information that even the wealthiest of corporate, collegiate or community libraries simply do not know what...
...notices. But that kind of automation mainly helps the librarian. More significant automation is aimed at helping the reader and researcher discover precisely what information is available. Uncounted millions of dollars are wasted annually by scientists repeating research that someone else has already painstakingly carried out and published. An odd medical fact tucked away in a periodical might save a life if the right doctor only knew that it was there. So far, however, only a fourth of the nation's available scientific literature is now catalogued. Many physicists are aware, for example, that one of the most complete...
...slender five-footer who parts his hair squarely in the middle a la Rudolph Valentino, Sobel, 74, is one of the oldest and best-known of 5,000-odd U.S. teaching pros, who make their living by selling clubs, balls and assorted haberdashery, and by giving lessons-mostly to amateurs, but often to the big-name stars of the tournament circuit. Arnold Palmer still takes lessons from his dad, a teaching pro at Pennsylvania's Latrobe Country Club, and Jack Nicklaus polishes his game under the watchful eye of Jack Grout at Miami Beach's La Gorce Country...