Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convention as compared with 17% in 1968. Youth representation has jumped from 1% to 9% on the floor and even more in the galleries. To offset the youthful image of the Democratic Convention five weeks earlier, the Republicans have brought in 3,000 people 30 and under to do odd jobs and cheer themselves hoarse for Nixon. Explains Stephen Nostrand, a staff director for National Young Voters for Nixon: "If the President calls and says, 'I need 500 kids at a press conference,' we can get them there in 20 minutes." Outside the convention hall, the protesting youths...
...began as an odd, Bondian episode greeted with amused stupefaction in Washington. Now the Watergate affair promises to be the scandal of the year. Justice Department officials found that the receiving end of bugs planted in the Democratic National Committee's headquarters was located just across the street in two rooms in the Howard Johnson's motel. There members of the security intelligence squad of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President were clearing out their records and tapes minutes after the cops arrested the Watergate Five...
...initial rush of euphoria undisturbed. This might last up to 20 minutes. They were careful to shoot only enough heroin to prevent withdrawal symptoms, not enough to get conspicuously high. If one began to nod, he moved around quickly to hide his drowsiness. If he was questioned about odd behavior, the favorite excuse was fatigue from lack of sleep caused by family problems. Older addicts also used the excuse of a hangover from drinking: most employers and supervisors apparently can empathize with this condition and find it socially acceptable. On this ground, said one addict, his boss often sent...
When the book first appeared in 1940, the Moscow purges and the Hitler-Stalin pact were very much in everyone's mind. It then seemed to some critics either odd or disingenuous of Wilson to close his chronicle just at the moment when the great Communist experiment was about to be put into dreadful practice. For this new edition, Wilson has added a short preface, corrected some errors. (He had been, he admits, too kind about Lenin's character.) But he shows no regret for not having carried the story further. How right he was. The book does...
...lend the city much of its style. Only one out of three Münchner is Bavarian-born, while about 15% of the city's population is non-German. It is this cultural blend that finally gives the city its lustig if somewhat spurious cosmopolitanism, an odd chemistry of the provincial and the sophisticated...