Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would never know it from a look at the curriculums of our nation's 350-odd university conservatories. Although there are upwards of 400 university jazz bands, most of them exist outside the approved educational curriculum and do not earn degree credits for participation...
County Kerry might seem like an odd place for the ex-President of France to take a holiday. However, the world's most quintessential Frenchman is partly Irish: his maternal grandmother was born in County Down, Ulster (then a part of Ireland). The main purpose of his trip is not sentimental, though. With the sort of disdainful gesture that is so specially his, De Gaulle has decided to absent himself from France during the election campaign and the voting on June 1 to pick his successor...
Meanwhile, down in New York, Jensen Jensen's family is entirely different. Living in a sprawling apartment on Riverside Drive, Jensen maintains a group marriage menage. His marriage partners are Carlotta, Emery, Marian, and Clancy. Most often Jensen is paired off with Carlotta, and Emery with Marian. At odd times, when he is lonely, both Carlotta and Marian will pair off with Clancy. They have all studied the howling monkey society and they like what they have learned...
...Odd as it may seem, the Federal Government spends considerable amounts each year financing law suits against itself. In 1966 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) began to grant some $200,000 annually to a group of New York lawyers who had formed the Center on Social Welfare Policy...
...hulking old man, are forward with the young captain. His new bride is aft, trying to steer the ungainly boat by its heavy tiller. Her husband crawls back along the catwalk to her; silhouetted half over the water with face upturned his doubled over figure resembles some odd monster coming into the camera. He reaches her; they embrace and tumble to the deck. Their figures in medium close shot are indistinct, but the bridal gown she is still wearing burns white in the surrounding dark...