Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reason for the odd arithmetic: two delegates have full votes, but the remaining 100 delegates have only 94 100ths of a vote apiece...
...occasion, a postwar record number of peers (377 out of the 700-odd eligible members) jammed the benches, spilling over onto the steps of the Queen's vacant throne and standing at the other end of the chamber. Late afternoon sunlight streamed through the tall west windows, flecking the gilded hall with the reds, blues, purples and whites of ancient aristocrats memorialized in stained glass above the heads of their descendants. The lords milled about, unaccustomed to the crush. The confusion became so great that at one point Lord Salisbury, 74, struggling to his feet, got tangled...
Joint Account. As superfamilies go, the Mellons are remarkably unknown to the public. Thomas Mellon, the paterfamilias, worked his way to a law degree at the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburgh) by doing odd jobs and tutoring less apt students. Soon after hanging out his shingle, he concluded that there was more money to be made in investment than in litigation. In 1870, he opened his own bank, T. Mellon & Sons. Tall, thin and austere as a Grant Wood painting, he wore high starched collars when lesser men had long since moved to sack suits...
...ODD COUPLE. Neil Simon's Broadway hit about an alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) is transferred to the screen virtually intact, although Actor Matthau's comic genius more than compensates for the static mise en scene...
LYTTON STRACHEY, by Michael Holroyd. The madly eccentric life and odd times of the author of Eminent Victorians, overwhelmingly documented in 1,229 improbably fascinating pages...