Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work of the summer culminated in the MFDP challenge at the Democratic National Convention, after which most of the volunteers went home. About 250 workers remained in the state to continue the 30-odd local projects that were initiated last June...
Early this year, the Black Liberation Front, a hot-eyed batch of pro-Castro New York Negroes, got in touch with some Quebec separatists, an equally odd outfit fanatically dedicated to Quebec's secession from Canada. The Black Liberation boys wanted some dynamite; the Canadians were willing to provide it. From their agreement sprang one of the most convoluted conspiracies since Guy Fawkes schemed in 1605 to blow up the English Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder...
...that odd, oral simile Chen neglected to say who was the teeth and who was merely the lip. But Peking's friends provided plenty of lip service. From Djakarta to Caracas, mobs led by Chinese Communist and other "students" smashed U.S. embassy windows, burned cars, ripped American flags, winged inkpots, and howled for Lyndon Johnson's blood. Back in Moscow after his eleven-day swing through Asia, So viet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at least partly echoed the Peking line; he promised "appropriate" military aid to the North Vietnamese, and his propaganda machine threatened dire consequences unless "American imperialism...
...kind of eternal clockwork, and most people thought of the social system in much the same terms, a favorite toy for grownups was the sort of music box in which tiny lords and ladies, shepherds and shepherdesses perform an elaborate, unchanging dance. Portuguese Author Monteiro has constructed his odd novella of life in modern Lisbon like one of those antique music boxes. The effect is quietly damning. The figures are a rich man, Gonçalo, his empty-headed wife, their idealistic young son, Gonçalo's stupid mistress Alexandra, and António, an old schoolmate fallen...
...with two-minute accountings from each of the undergraduate's half a dozen tutors, and go on to five minutes of rebuttal by the student and other colloquy on his problems. Several years ago, during what was perhaps the longest-playing ragtime on record, the chairman, after 90-odd minutes, suggested that perhaps the undergraduate was beyond salvation. "A student reflects his tutors," the boy replied, leaving the room-and the college...