Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second goal has an odd, atavistic ring...
...Summer School's Health Career Summer Program sounds like a liberal's dream. It is designed, according to its official prospectus, to prepare "ethnic minority college students who are interested in medicine and dentistry as careers and are disadvantaged in their pursuit of these careers." The 150-odd students in the program each year are all on full scholarship, getting free room, board and tuition and a $500 stipend in lieu of the money they would otherwise be earning in summer jobs. Most of the program's graduates end up in med school...
Bone and Steel. O'Neill's role as the political architect of what he hopes to keep an essentially unpolitical effort is an odd one. On any other issue, his job as party floor leader is to be the cutting edge of the Democratic program in the House. But he is keenly aware that the validity of the impeachment process would be destroyed by partisanship, by permitting Nixon's charge that it is a Democratic effort to undo the Nixon mandate of 1972 to become true-or even seem to be true. He is determined that...
...Washington "bachelor," the el der O'Neill has roomed for 21 years in Northwest Washington with Congress man Edward Boland from Springfield, Mass. They make an odd couple: Boland is the neat one, patiently tidying up their three-room apartment after O'Neill has rumpled...
...occasional fluttering gesture, an odd grimace or two remind us, as well, of the great Tramp that was. Unfortunately, the spirit of that immortal, an archical figure does not even struggle to emerge from the portly, white-haired world figure and self-appointed deep-dish thinker who disports so uncomfortably before audiences with which he could not help knowing he had lost all connection...