Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From East Africa steamed Britain's biggest aircraft carrier, the 44,000-ton, missile-armed H.M.S. Eagle, bringing to 70-odd the number of British vessels on patrol in Malaysian waters. Singapore bristles with British warplanes. In London, Prime Minister Harold Wilson, re-emphasizing the "resolve and determination with which we stand by our partner Malaysia," revealed that British military personnel in Malaysia total 50,000-the greatest concentration of British forces in the Far East since the Korean...
Lover's Doubt. The land of Voltaire and Descartes, France has been equally hospitable to Nostradamus and Cagliostro. Ordinarily tightfisted Frenchmen pay more than a billion dollars annually-more than France spends on scientific research-to an odd-lot collection of soothsayers, seers, fortunetellers, clairvoyants, gypsies, faith healers and prophets. In Paris alone, there is one charlatan for every 120 Parisians, compared with one doctor for every 514 citizens and one priest for every...
Beyond Decency. After 300-odd cases, said Kenison, U.S. law identifies four kinds of privacy torts, or wrongs...
...which is a mite embarrassing to Coach Arad McCutchan, 52. Arad is an odd name ("My great-grandfather picked it out of the Bible. It means 'a wild ass' "), and McCutchan is an odd coach. A balding, soft-spoken math teacher, he has a notion that the game ought to be played for fun. He wears flaming red socks ("for luck"), dresses the Purple Aces in bright orange road uniforms and warmup robes of yellow, red and green because "I like some color, and purple is hard to see." McCutchan limits his own recruiting to the environs...
Married. Woolworth ("Woolie") Donahue, 51, Manhattan man about town, heir to a $15-odd million slice of the five-and-dime fortune; and Mary Hartline Carlson, 37, blonde and bouncy bandleader on TV's Super Circus in the mid-1950s; both for the third time; at Woolie's estate in Calverton...