Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They taxied not in a taxi, though, but in the Cessna 170 they keep in the backyard hangar. The neighbors find nothing odd about that. They have airplanes in their backyards...
...Massachusetts politics. After all, they say, who can be left? The Speaker of the House, two of the eight Governor's Councillors, the head of the State Police, and the chairman of the commission for the New Boston's showpiece--the Government Center, have all been indicted with twenty-odd accomplices. It is also rumored that, except for his untimely death, the chairman of the Turnpike Commission would have been roped in, too. All this does not include the previous catch from investigations of the Department of Public Works, the Metropolitan District Commission, and the Legislature in the past year...
...odd man out was Vasily Vasilievich Tarasov, 36, a blond, stubby correspondent for Izvestia. Canada accredited Tarasov after an urgent request that came straight from the Kremlin. After depositing his wife and young daughter in a modest apartment in Ottawa's Sandy Hill district, Tarasov scraped up an acquaintance with a minor government functionary...
Though Mondrian has been dead for two decades, the grip of de Stijl's geometry has never lessened, as is demonstrated in the 80-odd paintings on show at Manhattan's Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. Among the younger Dutch painters, Joost Baljeu, 39, makes mechanical totems of an order beyond emotion. U.S. Artist Charles Biederman, 58, saw that his mentor Mondrian had reached "the very limit permitted by the old hand medium of paint." He lays down the brush for what he calls "the new art tools of man"-machines -and makes his metal reliefs look un touched...
...second off the world record. Ikoku Yoda was only the top star of an extraordinary team that has become one of Japan's greatest advertising attractions. Before the two-day meet was over, almost all the track and field championships had been won by 70-odd athletes from a single company: Tokyo's Riccar Sewing Machine Co., Japan^s biggest sewing machine maker...