Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ODD COUPLE. Two men breaking out of wedlock find the freedom of regained bachelorhood more agony than ecstasy. Walter Matthau and Art Carney are hilarious as mismatched roommates...
...diamonds, which followed the opening up of the African diamond fields. Seeking color and form rather than carats, jewelers reintroduced the beauty of semiprecious stones, particularly the shimmering opal, and outdid one another with bizarre settings. In place of the perfect jewel, the flawed gem was exploited, the odd-shaped pearl stressed for its singularity and enamels and glass were often preferred to gold. It took courage to wear these creations; it took, in fact, a new kind of woman. The intrepid Sarah Bernhardt, with her loose-flowing hair and cameo beauty, filled the bill...
...white. Some of his colleagues may conclude, though wrongly, that his purpose is to destroy medicine's meticulously protected public image. The book logs the author's internship year at an unidentified metropolitan hospital in the Southwest, just as he recounted it into a tape recorder at odd moments snatched from duty. Its candor conceals nothing but the true names of patients and staff. The result is a rare and unforgettable account of that underpaid, overworked, fumble-fingered and annealing process by which the medical-school graduate at last earns the right to practice...
...book's 2,000-odd entries are alphabetized, but that is about the only concession to order. Otherwise, Bernstein consulted only the rules defining "clarity, precision and logical presentation"-plus the generally reliable canons of his own taste. This makes for a journey past the shoals and promontories of English usage that is more casual than comprehensive, but frequently edifying and unfailingly illuminated by the Bernstein...
...federal budget has lately been a source of concern in Washington, but for an odd reason: there are unmistakable signs that the deficit is declining. This should be a cause for celebration, and for the most part it is, because it demonstrates that business has been vigorous enough to generate additional revenue for the Government despite the tax cut-and partly because of it. But the deficit decline disturbs many "activist" economists, who advance the neo-Keynesian argument that if business is to grow vigorously, the Government must pump more money into the economy than it takes...