Word: odd
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Once one of the Middle East's most xenophobic and insulated nations, Iraq is striving to end its role as odd man out and looking for diplomatic friends. Last March, Iraq proposed yet another Arab federation, with Syria and Egypt, but the notion was quickly rejected in Cairo. Libya was left out of Baghdad's plans at the time because its leader, Muammar Gaddafi, had objected to Iraq's growing friendship with the Soviet Union. But since then, Gaddafi has spoken up in favor of the I.P.C. nationalization, and "he is now our friend," said a foreign...
...Indian subcontinent cannot be fully put in order without Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who has declined to attend the summit until Pakistan recognizes his country. Bhutto last week may have been preparing the way for recognition when he observed that Pakistan would become "odd man out" at the United Nations this fall if it still refuses recognition to Dacca...
While the amnesic lad marked time by doing odd jobs for the Salvation Army and playing honky-tonk piano, distraught mothers of runaways called Key West by the hundreds, claiming him as their own. Finally the real parents showed up, identifying the boy as Kim Basil Kadas, 16, of East Chicago, Ind. Kim recognized his mother and departed for home with his parents, leaving those anguished mothers to go on searching countless police stations and claiming sandy-haired, blue-eyed teenage boys as their lost sons...
...modern farmers are putting more energy into the soil (in the form of mechanization, fertilizers and pesticides) than they are taking out in the form of bumper crops. By 1987, Dubos predicted, such practices will cause enough pollution and depletion of resources to limit further growth. He offered the odd analogy of the medieval church builders in France, who decided to end their rivalry after the highest cathedral, in Beauvais, twice collapsed. "Every technology has its limits," said Dubos...
...give encouragement to his "city-room Weathermen," as he calls them, Winship frequently sends out "tiger notes," which invariably begin: "Terrific job, Tiger. Keep 'em coming." The fact that the editor frequently wears rumpled seersucker, odd slacks and boots doesn't hurt rapport either. Not that generational and ideological friction is completely absent. Radical Columnist David Deitch was recently removed from the Op-Ed page. Winship explained that the change was to make room for contributions from Ralph Nader and the Black Congressional Caucus; Deitch charged that the paper could no longer swallow his attacks on the Boston...