Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most significant addition was Sticht, who worked his way through Grove City (Pa.) College as a steel-mill laborer and campus odd-jobber. Sticht got his management experience at TWA and Campbell's, where he was head of the international division when the Laz ari-as Cincinnatians call the merchandising family-persuaded him to try his skills at retailing...
Hardy Minority. Considering that the Beatles' trademark is offbeat irreverence, their effect on mature audiences is odd ly amusing. If the teeny-boppers made the Beatles plaster gods, many adults make them pop prophets, and tend to theorize solemnly, instead of seriously, about their significance. The Rev. B. Davie Napier, dean of the chapel at Stanford University, says that "no entity hits as many sensitive people as these guys do." Napier, who has dwelt in past sermons on Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby, is convinced that Sgt. Pepper "lays bare the stark loneliness and terror of these lonely times...
...passenger by crashing, crunching and slamming the car into a junkyard heap. His invasion of the syndicate's impregnable penthouse (carpeted in wall-to-wall red fox fur) begins with a steamy sex wrestle and ends in a superbly vertiginous shot of a naked mobster arcing 20-odd stories into a crowded street...
...Odd Company. Romney was followed on the Gordon program by some husband and wife swappers, and it may have caused some surprise that the morally upright Governor should find himself televised in such company. But there was no surprise at all over the reaction to his comments...
...seem odd to put the cold war on a par with the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars. Where was its Jena, its Marne or its Stalingrad? But Louis Halle, a longtime State Department adviser under Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower, and lately a professor of international studies in Geneva, contends in this cool, dispassionate study that the cold war was every bit as climactic and dramatic a power struggle as those bloody predecessors. What's more, says Halle, the cold war is over, though the conditions of conflict that bred it continue...