Word: odd
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...worry about directly. For the first time since 1636, Harvard doesn't produce the end product of the educational mill. Most of its students get their final polish somewhere else. George Orwell went to Eton but did not then attend a British university, a procedure which today seems odd. In a few years, it may seem as odd to go to Harvard College and then not attend a graduate school of some sort...
...months later the President finally found the "compatible" buyer he required for the 20-odd acres of land that he wanted to sell. Until last week's accounting, this buyer had been identified by the White House as the presidential creditor: Abplanalp. In fact, said Nixon's auditors, the property was bought by both Abplanalp and Rebozo. To buy the land from their friend in the White House, the two men became "co-partners doing business under the firm name and style of B. & C. Investment Co." Nixon spokesmen explained that Abplanalp later bought out his partner...
Behind such odd behavior lay a sudden, pinching shortage of newsprint, the rough, lightweight paper that is daily journalism's staff of life. Around 65% of the newsprint consumed in the U.S. comes from Canada, where a nationwide rail strike last week brought major deliveries to the U.S. to a halt. That only dramatized older problems. A wet spring hampered logging operations this year, and summer strikes at many of Canada's major paper mills have reduced production from 28,000 to 22,000 tons daily...
...evident at the A.B.A. convention. A year ago, Whitney North Seymour Sr., past president of the A.B.A., helped water down a decriminalization motion. This year Seymour was the first speaker in favor of the revised resolution. Says he: "Reflecting on the consequences of criminal penalties to the 20-odd million young people using marijuana, I decided that we ought to concentrate on trying to stop sales and start removing penalties for possession." Seymour was joined by a host of law-and-order spokesmen, and the motion even received personal endorsement from a representative of the hard-line National District Attorneys...
Poor Colonel Matucci has the devil's own time getting to the bottom of all this. All of his informants are voluble expositors from the "How is your father, the Archduke?" school of dialogue. Matucci's tiniest queries elicit encyclopedic replies. Matucci is also afflicted with an odd syntactic ataxia that makes his English sound like an American's idea of Italian. Thus handicapped, Matucci loses his struggles with metaphors ("A new conviction was crystallizing out of the murky fluid of my own thoughts...