Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Margruder was one of the "60 odd people" considered for the six fellowship positions, May said. He added that Magruder had been to Combridge twice since January to talk with him about the fellowship program and about the Watergate case...
...Journalist John Cogley in an accurate bit of doggerel in the Jesuit weekly America: "There are Jesuits left and Jesuits right/ A pro and con for most any fight/ So wherever you stand, you stand not alone:/ Every little movement has a Jebbie of its own." It is an odd position, almost a public embarrassment, for an order of such traditional rigidity?"the long black line"?to play out its differences before the world. Older Jesuits feel lost in a dangerous indiscipline; the younger members sense themselves on a ragged edge...
...more troublesome enemies is the family of herpes viruses. The 50 odd variants of the virus are responsible for a number of painful and occasionally dangerous conditions, including shingles, a form of encephalitis and an eruption of blisters in infants with eczema. Recently, however, medical researchers have been focusing their attention on herpes simplex, a type of the virus long known to be responsible for a relatively minor affliction, the cold sore. Their findings have provided both good and bad news. The good news: several promising methods have been developed to treat the sores. The bad: a variation of herpes...
...Take It with You and Harvey. The characters in those plays are part rebel and part kook, social dropouts, sort of sacred nuts. The tradition deepens in the works of playwrights like William Inge and Tennessee Williams. Their characters are not so much oddballs as odd souls who suffer psychic and sexual wounds. This is the world of the alienated self, the mutilated heart, the existential transient, moving a playgoer more nearly to tears than to laughter...
...turned out to be just as big a phony as was his promise to end the Vietnam War, which he extended instead to all of Indochina. By insisting upon the retention of the entire fabric of the old Selective Service Act at an annual cost of some 50-odd million dollars, he makes this promise absolutely meaningless. He apparently has no more respect for his promises than von Bethmann-Hollweg, as Chancellor, had for Germany's treaty obligation not to violate Belgium's neutrality during WWI, calling it "a mere scrap of paper...