Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Odd Atmosphere. Overall, the week's events did little to enhance Nixon's prestige. Another of his hand-picked appointees had been shown to be fatally flawed. Nixon probably managed to avoid angering significant political segments by his selection of Ford, although the odd atmosphere of celebration rather than solemnity as he made his televised announcement may have offended many viewers. A battle with Congress over confirmation has surely been avoided. Nor is there likely to be any widespread feeling that the removal of Nixon would be much more palatable now that Agnew is gone, since Ford does...
...Odd Coincidence. There is yet an odder coincidence about the gifts. The second installment was paid to him, Rebozo testified, on July 3, 1970, at Nixon's San Clemente home. On the same date, committee sources said, Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp, another close presidential pal, were concluding a deal for the purchase of 2.9 acres of Nixon's San Clemente property, apparently to help the President finance his lavish estate. According to the same sources, the purchase price of that parcel of land was exactly $100,000. Rebozo denied that any of the Hughes money was used...
...Soviet-built missile so new that it has never before been used in combat. In fact, according to British Military Analyst Edward Luttwak, the Soviet army itself has only limited quantities of the SA-6. Lethally accurate, it is responsible for downing most of the 70-odd American-made F-4E Phantoms and A-4E Skyhawks that Israel lost in the first week...
...CITY BESET by over 150 murders each year, it is odd that two should be treated so differently. For the most part, the stories which reported the murders were accurate (discounting of course the Barba fiasco) but the prominence assigned th stories and the subsequent graphic, and follow-up reporting was badly overdone...
...American gurus are initially arresting because they are so incongruous: the images of Vietnamese civil servants worshipping Victor Hugo and young people from America's suburbs genuflecting before a 15-year-old Indian Guru are strangely symmetrical. But the similarities run much deeper than this curious congruence of the odd: the popularity of both the Cao Dai in Vietnam and the yogis in America is evidence of societies weakened by a special kind of dissolution...