Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gruening does not even look like a Senator. He is a small man with large red ears and heavy jowls, and long feet which stick out at odd angles when he walks. His head, covered in the back with long white hair, rests heavily on his shoulders, and when he sits, his limbs seem to fold into his body in the way that the limbs of old men do. At a dinner in his honor in Boston last week, Gruening stood almost unnoticed at the edge of the crowd; most of the 500 guests didn't recognize...
...overextended himself, as he did in 1961 when he almost lost control of his company. Last year Ling borrowed $900 million to snare Jones & Laughlin, National Car Rental, and Braniff Airways whose latest advertising campaign shows odd couples flying high. He tried to refinance part of that debt last fall, but investors spurned his efforts. Ling scoffs at the doubters. "This is just the year to kick conglomerates," he says. He planned to sell off a small slice of Braniff, most of National Car Rental and perhaps a few other securities to raise all the funds that he said...
...room of a Long Island railroad train by a Peruvian sun priestess turned tramp. Whittaker Duchamp, bogus play producer, is more fortunate: he only loses an ear. The bloody trail is also strewn with a vengeful rabbi, scheming and pathetic women, a semi-transvestite, and other odd characters who are for the most part linked...
...exceedingly difficult to exercise the control dictated by group drinking." The New York study also revealed that Skid Row is not the end of the road in the usual despairing sense. Its residents do not fall there, but actively seek it out because it has what they want: odd jobs without purpose or future, a community that is permissive to the point of indifference, hermetic shelter from the incessant demands of the larger society. "The Skid Rower does nothing," says Wallace. "He just is. He is everything that all the rest...
...letter began by expressing the Corporation's approval of the Faculty's apparent interest in academic matters. This odd commendation was not quite so superfluous as it first appeared, because, as the next few sentences made clear, the Corporation had decided to interpret the Faculty's vote on ROTC in the most narrowly academic way possible. "We are hopeful." Pusey wrote, "that agreement can be reached [with the Pentagon] in regard to issues of academic credit and teaching appointments, since we believe the military services will recognize that the Faculty should control its own membership and course offerings." Having said...