Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their joint career started around the time of their marriage in 1964. Working for famed Record Producer Phil Specter, Sonny found odd gigs for Cher singing background at recording sessions, and they got a job together at a spot on the Strip called The Purple Onion. After work, she would often ask Sonny to drive her up to Tony Curtis' 31-room Tudor-style mansion in the Holmby Hills and park outside its great cast-iron gates. Says Sonny: "Cher would pine for that house. She'd say, 'God, Son, I want to live there...
...small lifeboat for some of those passengers, Todd and McLarney have created a prototype agricultural "ark," a self-sufficient food-producing complex involving greenhouses, fish ponds, solar heaters and a windmill. The odd layout is clustered around three greenhouse-covered ponds built on an incline. The lowest pond contains a variety of edible fish, mostly the tasty tropical tilapia (somewhat like the sunfish). Pumped by the windmill, the water from this pond is passed through a solar heater, then circulated through a bed of crushed, bacteria-laden shells in the topmost pond. The bacteria not only detoxify the fish wastes...
...model U.N.s each year. To imply that new students run these conferences, naming four, and, then say it is a big job for them" is an incredibly patronizing understatement. Putting on our high school conference alone took an estimated six thousand man-hours of work by our eighty-odd member volunteer staff. Both conferences are tremendous undertakings...
...corner of the room. "No don't laugh. Listen to the musicians. I don't like what they're playing, either, but, you know, they really know what they're doing. I turned and there sat this guy with a violin case resting across his knees. An odd duck. I thought. What does he do on that fiddle anyway...
...shot-in-the-dark" hunting expeditions. Speaking for the majority, Chief Justice Warren Burger conceded the problem but insisted that courts could deal with it by keeping careful limits on the IRS power. After all. Burger added, many taxpayers innocently "hide large amounts of currency in odd places out of a fear of banks"-a fear that last week's decision will not diminish...