Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pride & Potentates. Sound in conception, the idea has often proved severely flawed in execution. The U.S. now doles out economic aid to 100-odd nations in an often unselective, incoherent program that Congressmen are fond of calling a boondoggle. Instead of paying for development, countless U.S. aid dollars have paid for jet planes to please a foreign potentate, or uneconomic steel mills to satisfy a new nation's sense of pride...
...odd failing common to both species is extreme male fickleness. As soon as actual mating begins, the female turns off her light lure. But if another female is in the vicinity with her light still glowing, the busy male is as likely as not to disengage and hasten to the shining new partner...
...Edinburgh, where his father was a truck driver. He quit school at 15, joined the Royal Navy at 16, and was medically discharged at 19 for stomach ulcers. He bears two souvenirs of his Navy career tattooed on his forearm: "MUM AND DAD" and "SCOTLAND FOREVER." He worked at odd jobs like coffin polishing. Then a friend told him that a dancer was needed for the chorus of the London production of South Pacific. Connery took a fast 48 hours of private dancing lessons...
Laurence did not entirely concur with this prediction, even though it came from Einstein. He has the scientist's habit of storing odd bits of information until they mesh, and by 1939 a pattern had begun to form. Routinely covering a scientific meeting at Columbia University that year, he carefully noted the heavy concentration of nuclear physicists and repeated allusions to "chain reaction," a phrase that meant little to him at the time. But by the following May, a story of his gave Times readers an advance look at the awesome energy packed into an isotope of uranium called...
...that most laymen know about hemophilia is that it is an odd and dangerous disease of the blood that strikes men only, although it is transmitted by women. Medical researchers have learned a great deal more than that, but when the nation's expert hematologists gathered in Washington, they realized that much more was still to be learned. They are baffled by at least eight bleeding disorders that are caused by the lack of any one of ten different clotting factors in the blood...