Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recognition of the problems facing America's cities, the Congress approved a fourth, the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In the Senate, which passed a bill establishing HUD by a vote of 57 to 33, opposition was predominantly Republican. The bill's aim, to coordinate 115-odd federal housing and urban development programs within a single department, seemed worthy enough. But for many critics it portended yet another Parkinsonian encroachment on community affairs. Objected Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen: "I never yet saw, when you set up a department that it didn't grow and proliferate...
Candace Mossier is a lissome, lippy blonde of 46 who says that she took her children out for a drive in Key Biscayne, Fla., one night last June to mail some letters at the odd hour of 1 a.m. Instead of returning home, she says, she suffered a migraine headache and went to a hospital. During her absence, something even odder happened to her millionaire husband, Miami and Houston Financier Jacques Mossier, 69. He was bludgeoned and stabbed 39 times. The results were fatal. According to Miami police, Mossier left a note: "If Mel and Candace don't kill...
...connoisseurs of the East's fabled "Seven Sisters" women's colleges, Wel lesley girls stand out as a bit odd, at least as seen in stereotype. They are not given to the long hair, bulging book bags and breathless brilliance found at Radcliffe. They lack the Junior-League-socialite attitude of Smith. Vassar's ear nest, do-gooder zeal eludes them; nor do they share the compulsive egalitarianism of Barnard students. They are neither so muscularly athletic as the Bryn Mawr girls nor quite so country-sweet as the Mount Holyoke lasses. Their distinguishing characteristic, in short...
...ODD COUPLE. Walter Matthau and Art Carney, on leave from unhappy marriages, try to set up a menage a deux, and their farcical failure makes hugely successful comedy...
...searching for him, enduring separation, fear and wanton slaughter, before they return home just in time to ride off for Sunday services at the village church. There, naturally, the lost son hobbles in on a makeshift crutch. Shenandoah's final comment on the futility of war conveys the odd impression that it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people...