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Word: odd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is no section of the country," says Coles, "where complaints and difficulties and a yearning for something better doesn't exist. Most people still want to vote for the Democratic Party, but they are afraid that the party is not what they want it to be, that some odd sector of the party has seized control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: The Confrontation of the Two Americas | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...seemed odd that the Republicans strove so vigorously for a national convention of but one mind and with no discord. This country did not develop from such a put-on. There has never been an American season without winds of countless directions. So just what country did the Republican Convention depict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1972 | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

Most of the earl's estate, which seems to be the size of Delaware, goes to his only living son Jack (Peter O'Toole), an odd sort who runs about in monk's habit sublimely certain that he is God. "He's a paranoid schizophrenic," his doctor diagnoses, to which Jack's Uncle Charles sputters indignantly: "But he's a Gurney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cartoons from Punch | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...business, lending him his supply of macaroons and hurrying him out to follow his wife around the streets of London and win her heart again. The film would be a laughable travesty were it not directed by Carol Reed, who made such superb films as The Third Man, Odd Man Out and Outcast of the Islands. That makes it a sad travesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Obtuse Triangle | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

...that time of year. But at Harvard people row as long as there is open water, and when there no longer is any open water they play with ergometers, or they play in the tanks, or they run 20 times up and down the 50-odd steps in Harvard Stadium. The Harvard schedule consists of five regular season races plus the Eastern sprints...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: An Everyman's Guide To Sports at Harvard | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

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