Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dacia Revisited. Rumania has always been Eastern Europe's odd man out. Cupped impregnably within the broad U of the Carpathians, it long ago became a repository for recalcitrance and resistance to outside influence. Its original inhabitants, the Daci, fought as archers from horseback against...
...indefatigably of his sexual and fistic derring-do, the squat (5 ft. 3 in.), sullen-faced high school dropout dyed his hair black, caked his face with makeup, and stuffed so much wadding in his boots to make him look taller that he could hardly walk. Yet among the odd collection of restless, thrill-hungry teen-agers who hang out in the garish juke joints and drive-ins along Tucson's East Speedway Boulevard (TIME, Nov. 26), swart, blue-eyed "Smitty" commanded adoration and terror...
...statement could not be rebutted and was inadmissible. Bailey retorted that an assistant attorney general of Ohio had accompanied him when he talked with Kilgallen, and they agreed that her statement did not have to be sworn because of her "eminence and integrity." This presented the court with the odd situation in which the attorney general's office agreed to the taking of a statement, then objected to it later in court...
Signals from Space. The distant starlike objects not only pose the questions, they promise the answers. Merely finding them in the first place - detecting their radio voices and photographing their odd and telltale light- was a cooperative triumph of radio and optical astronomy. It was Schmidt who discovered the enigmatic properties of the quasars...
...Carr: B.U. will have a big advantage playing in its home rink. The Arena is an odd-shaped rink, and Clarkson has a record of doing poorly there...