Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience with the Oil Minister of neighboring Kuwait, Abdel Muttaleb al Kazimi, at the royal palace in Riyadh. Outside the King's office, Kazimi was greeted by Prince Faisal ibn Musaed, 26, a nephew of the King's and one of the 3,000-odd princes of the House of Saud. While Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, briefed the King on the audience, Kazimi and Prince Faisal, apparently a former classmate of Kazimi's, waited outside. When Yamani returned to usher Kazimi inside, the prince tagged along...
...take place in Saigon. On Wednesday a group of leading anti-Communists met for tea at the officers' club at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. Their host was Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant airman who was Prime Minister from 1965 to 1967. Among Ky's 30-odd guests were such prominent figures as Dr. Tran Van Do, former Foreign Minister and head of the South Vietnamese delegation to the Geneva Convention of 1954, and Father Tran Huu Thanh, leader of the Catholic anticorruption movement that has sponsored several popular anti-Thieu demonstrations in the past several months...
...This odd pair would probably have remained nothing more than adversaries in the rush-hour traffic were it not for the trial of Big John Connally, which opens this week in Washington. Williams is defending Connally, three times the Governor of Texas, and Secretary of the Treasury under Richard M. Nixon, against charges that he accepted a $10,000 bribe in return for using his influence to secure a 1971 hike in milk-price supports. The lawyer heading the Government's three-man team of prosecutors is Cyclist Tuerkheimer. Outwardly, the case seems to be a classic example...
...Socialist) Michael Harrington and other academicians. It has been vigorously denounced by multinational executives, including PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall, who says that the book displays an anti-growth bias that "sounds like a great leap backward to the Dark Ages." Both sides have ammunition: Global Reach is an odd blend of reasoned argument and far-out fantasy...
...traveling salesmen sold movies then Homebodies would be called a novelty item. Such gewgaws find their value not in beauty or utility but in their oddness. And, like a Whoopee Cushion or a musical nutcracker. Homebodies is an odd little item indeed...