Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From time to time the President did exhibit odd grace notes. He expressed deeply felt concern for Hunt, whose wife Dorothy was killed in a plane crash in Chicago. He worried about "poor Bob" Haldeman, who was "totally selfless and honest and decent" but because of Watergate was "going through the tortures of the damned." There were even attempts at humor, albeit rather heavyhanded. For example, Nixon joined in the merriment on March 22, 1973, when Haldeman joked that "John says he is sorry he sent those burglars in there" and that he was glad
...Sprints is set up, the even-numbered seeds race in one heat, and the odd-numbered seeds race in the other. The top three finishers from each heat then advance to the finals later...
...stayed trim by regular riding on his horse Achilles, the mount on which he has won several national and international competitions. He can also be somewhat overbearing. In Guinea, he told fat officers to lose weight, and if they did not, he ordered them shipped home. He is an odd man indeed to inspire a liberal-leaning revolution, but he is perhaps the only man in Portugal who could have done...
Last week the odd couple finally agreed to agree-maybe. Japan will lend $1.05 billion to the Soviet Union so that work can begin on three major projects: mining coal in southern Yakutia, prospecting for natural gas in northern Yakutia, and harvesting timber in the Soviet Far East. The Russians will repay the loan in hard currency at 6.375% interest over the next 16 years. Four-fifths of the loan must be used by the Soviets to purchase Japanese mining and lumbering equipment. Once the projects get rolling, the Soviet Union will supply Japan with coal at prevailing world market...
...belong to the S.L.A., the FBI suspects that nine?self-styled as "intelligence units" ?were involved in the kidnaping. Explains one law enforcement official: "All of them were under suspicion right from the start: they vanished overnight while other members of the S.L.A. stayed around." They are an odd and un likely assortment of characters whose private odysseys reveal much about their collective extremism. Thumbnail portraits of the nine...