Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odd role for a Soviet leader. All last week, during his private talks with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Russian Premier Aleksei Kosygin found himself forced to go soft on imperialism. At least that is what Soviet sources traveling with Kosygin were leaking to Western newsmen. "Actually," argued one Russian, "we are fighting Washington's battle. And we're having as much trouble restraining Nasser as you used to have restraining Chiang Kai-shek...
...spelled out his strategy for ending Communist terrorism. "Progress for all Guatemalans," he said simply, "is the answer to violent revolution." Just to give progress a hand, however, Peralta extracted a promise from Méndez that the military would have a free rein in hunting down the 500-odd guerrillas operating in Guatemala's hills and jungles...
...addition to the Senate-Administration version of home rule there were twenty-odd others before the House District Committee. Among these were such curiosities as the Broyhill Bill, proposing that the District of Columbia be given back to Maryland, and the Sisk Bill...
...them turn on Trellis, afflict him with more boils (64) than Job's, and provoke him to a robust curse: "You hog of hell, you leper's death-puke!" A bleak, black coda to the book-within-a-book says enigmatically: "Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop." Was Trellis mad? It is hard to say. Was he a victim of hallucinations? Professor Unternehmer, the German neurologist, allows Trellis "an inverted sow neurosis, wherein the farrow eats their...
...odd thing about all this is that the Kennedy way is hardly the best way to give a speech. Not until late October of the 1960 campaign could John Kennedy give an effective speech, and the younger brothers still haven't made it. But the style has an unstudied, youthful sincerity about it. And what the candidates wanted most to show the college Democrats was that a man of 45 could be as sincere as one of 20, if also as inarticulate...