Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble between Saigon and the highlands began in 1954, when President Ngo Dinh Diem's regime attempted to "assimilate" the million-odd Montagnards. Tribal schools and courts were abolished, and 200,000 Vietnamese moved into the hills-often violating tribal tenure rights to grab rich land along the highlands' racing rivers. In Darlac, a Vietnamese province chief decreed that Montagnards must wear shirts and slacks; in Pleiku, Montagnards were forbidden to build their houses on stilts. By 1958, the tribesmen were completely dispossessed: Diem denied them title to their lands...
...distance runner has to love the wind running through his hair. He has to have a distance runner's mentality," Hardin says getting up from the couch. Whatever it is, and it seems to be an odd mixture of the serious and the esthetic, Doug...
...Classy." Twenty years later, the Philippines are an odd melange of American, Spanish and Asian influence, all edged with a ferocity and fecundity that is uniquely Filipino. The crooning of a tuko lizard in the night forests of Cavite is counterpointed by the rattle of gunfire as a cigarette-smuggling speedboat runs a customs blockade offshore. The big beat of jukeboxes in Manila's waterfront dives does not quite drown out the clink of cocktail glasses at the opulent Army-Navy Club. Manila newspapers splash crime news in Hechtian hyperbole across their front pages...
...odd miles of glacier-formed sand dunes that stretch along the Indiana shore of Lake Michigan are not only unique geologically but also a favorite recreation center. The dunes also represent prime industrial sites for steel mills clustered about nearby Gary. For eight years conservationists, led in Congress by Illinois Senator Paul Douglas, have been locked in battle with private developers and steel companies...
...stampede. After selling borrowed shares, bears aim to cover their loans and also make a tidy profit by buying the same stock when prices have declined still lower. Big bears have been following the practice all summer long. Little bears followed and, as of last fortnight, short sales by odd-lotters (selling fewer than 100 shares) reached their highest level in more than 30 years...