Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHICH party does he belong to?" The whispered question came from Painter Marion Pike as she arrived for the first sitting with Ronald Reagan. It seemed odd that she should ask, in the midst of the heated California political campaign, but so far as the cover was concerned, the answer really did not matter. In selecting the cover subject in any given campaign situation, TIME'S editors consider party affiliation a more or less incidental matter. The decision depends largely on which candidate has introduced a new and interesting element into the political picture. In the 1966 California gubernatorial...
...racist won by some sort of fluke, or to say Sickles was whipped by white backlash is just too simple. Maryland is an odd state. It is half-Northern, half-Southern; half-urban, half-rural. The Eastern Shore seems like another world to the suburbanites of Montgomery and Prince Georges counties. The Shore and the southern counties below Washington are solid Dixie. Mahoney won all of these in the primary (except Miles' home county). But why was everyone so surprised? Wallace took 11 of the 12 in 1964. After the election too many people wouldn't look at a plain...
...expected increase in the number of applicants, John P. Elder, Dean of the GSAS, said. With the children of the post-war baby-boom now reaching graduate school and the increased percentage of students who go on to graduate study, Elder anticipates some 6000 applications for the 900-odd places available next Fall. This is an increase of some 500 over the current figure...
Pravda and Izvestia were providing some of the most detailed-and accurate-reports as the Red Guards continued their odd operations. The whole Cultural Revolution, charged Izvestia last week, is "a monstrous discreditation of the ideas of Marxism-Leninism...
...classic, run-of-the-mill lecture course. Walking into a plush, carpeted wombroom on the 13th floor of William James the student is confronted with an oval shaped table with a motherly gap in the center. Seated around the table in ominous silence are his twenty-odd classmates and an unidentified section leader...