Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odd reporters filed out of the oval office, it was apparent to all that these end-of-the-week gatherings around the President's desk were here to stay. Clearly, Johnson thinks that this is the best format for getting across his plans and ideas. There will undoubtedly be more of the formal sessions. But Lyndon Johnson has always liked to get close to those he is trying to persuade, to look them straight in the eye and squeeze their hands. This is more easily done in the relaxed atmosphere of his White House office...
...country's 100-odd law reviews are wholly run by the aristocrats of U.S. law schools-fearsomely bright students who toil around the clock polishing deep-think articles that influence U.S. law right up to the Supreme Court. "Nowadays a case doesn't reach the end of the line with the Supreme Court," says one admiring law professor. "The last resort is what the law reviews say they think about...
Poitier has 1½ years of formal education and a Ph.D. in odd jobs. In Miami, he worked as a parking attendant, and learned about the COLORED ONLY, WHITE ONLY signs. From the islands he had brought with him only the vaguest experience of prejudice, and the sudden force of it was more than he could live with. In less than a year, he had migrated to Manhattan, arriving with...
Going from odd job to odd job, he tried acting. He saw an ad in the paper for would-be actors at the American Negro Theater. But he talked in a singsong island accent that made people collapse with laughter. Buying a small radio, he began to listen to the pure tones of the network announcers, repeating after them their every rounded phrase, commercials and all. When he went back to the American Negro Theater some months later...
...Portrait painting is a pimp's profession," John Singer Sargent once proclaimed. "Mugs" was what he called his 500-odd sitters, mostly proper Bostonians, British nobles and French socialites, and he sometimes contemptuously held their attention by coloring his nose red or pretending to eat his cigar. "No more paughtraits" he wrote in relief to a friend after he began shunning them in 1910, at the height of his renown...