Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editors decided to make a new general assessment of the U.S. military position and strategy. All week, over our new highspeed circuit from Saigon, the cables chattered in for the writers, editors, researchers and mapmakers at work on the story of U.S. servicemen digging in in enclaves whose odd names may soon be familiar to all Americans. Status & Strategy in THE WORLD is a scorecard of the war to date...
...need for home manufacture. The Hanoverian kings of England had placed strict embargoes and taxes on the use of fine fabrics, such as cotton prints from Calcutta, in the colonies. So women hoarded snippets and swatches left over from dressmaking for the piecework of quilts. By the Victorian era, odd batches of brocade, chintzes and calicoes were patched into crazy quilts, more a tour de force in stitchery than in pattern. As shown in an exhibit of historic counterpanes at New Jersey's Newark Museum (see opposite page), the very nature of quilting, whether applique or piecework, required fancy...
...police lobbed tear gas grenades and turned fire hoses on them, then waded in with truncheons. In the push to retreat, bodies tangled and fell. When the curtain of tear gas lifted, Stadium Street was strewn with stunned demonstrators and tourists, broken glass, placards, clothing and hundreds of odd shoes. One student, Sotirios Petroulas, 25, suffocated, and George Papandreou had his first martyr...
...groundwork for the 17-nation disarmament committee's only major breakthrough in its three years of effort: the 1963 treaty banning above-ground nuclear tests. Last week as the committee prepared to reconvene in Geneva's Palais des Nations after a ten-month recess, Harriman by an odd coincidence was just finishing up another quiet week in Moscow-a "vacation," he called it, in which he just happened to meet twice with Russian Premier Aleksei Kosygin for some five hours of talks...
Like most starving young beginners, Dunn supported himself with odd jobs, including one as a sports rewrite man on a daily paper, another as a hotel detective. (He is an excellent shot with small arms; large guns tend to fire him rather than the bullet.) Gradually, acting jobs began materializing. He played jesters, fools, a cop and a vaudeville performer off-Broadway, made his first Broadway appearance as the insides of a robot in How to Make...