Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Special Forces led by local guides. Occasionally, when a Communist troop concentration is firmly fixed, South Vietnamese units as large as a company slip across for a swift, unpublicized strike. But the main job of harassment is carried out by the Royal Laotian Air Force's 25-odd prop-driven T-28 fighter-bombers and U.S. jets out of Thailand, which bomb the heavy traffic on the trail around the clock under the euphemism of "armed reconnaissance...
...Renaissance scholar whose Ph.D. was on the Louvre and whose books include a history of Renaissance architecture and a widely used introductory college art text, Lowry at first glance seemed an odd choice for the Modern. But in recent months, Lowry, who is currently head of Brown University's art department, has gained national recognition. Last November, when news of Florence's inundation was spread across the headlines, he and colleagues at Brown got on the telephone, called friends across the U.S., overnight formed the Committee to Rescue Italian Art. Since then CRIA, with Lowry as national executive...
...jaws at an altitude of 30 miles, adsorb the oxygen atoms on an activated charcoal surface and bring them back to earth. Any oxygen atoms combined with quarks could then be identified by examining the sample with a mass spectrometer, which would separate them out because of their odd mass and fractional charge...
...pretaped acts. Dana's putative advantage over the competition is that there is more top cabaret talent in Vegas in a week than Carson's New York or Bishop's Los Angeles sees in a month. Trouble is that about half of Dana's ten-odd nightly guests are lounge (or second-string) acts rather than the featured stars...
...frills. "HEY THERE! YOU WITH THE SWEAT IN YOUR PALMS," read the headline that kicked off its nationwide campaign. "Most people are scared witless of flying," it went on. Moreover, the ad revealed, every time a P.A.L. plane takes off a pilot wonders "if this is it." Explaining the odd campaign, New York Lawyer Matthew E. McCarthy, the trunk line's chief executive and biggest shareholder, said: "It's basically honest. We spoof the passengers' concern, but at least we admit they have...