Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...girl replies, or at least that is what the translator says. One of the visitors speaks up. "If we had asked that question in America, she would have said she wanted to grow up and get married." The answer is translated and it has an odd effect. Instantly the somber expressions of the girls vanish; they laugh among themselves...
...month in spending money. The division, in accordance with the words of Chairman Mao, produces its own food. We watch P.L.A. men working to process soy beans into soy sauce, bean paste, vinegar and bean curd. The division also grows its own rice and raises 900-odd pigs. Everything fits into its objective of achieving self-reliance and, as Vice Commander Keng puts it, "lightening the burden of the locality." There is a very basic quality about the whole operation. The necessities of life with no refinements-rice, meat and soy sauce...
Police Party. The difficulty of trying to shift national gears suddenly from confrontation to conciliation was dramatically demonstrated last week. With odd timing, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned that China was well on its way to becoming "the third most important nuclear power in the world." The U.S., he said, must have the ability to wage nuclear war against both China and the Soviet Union at the same time. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird also reported that the Chinese now have a few medium-range missiles (500 to 1,000 miles, by some...
...secret proscenium of his fancy, Irving seemed to be reveling in his part. He had become a modern anti-hero of sorts-a bilker of corporations and master of that old American art form, the tall tale. He could never have done it, of course, without Howard Hughes, that odd fixture of Americana with his inexplicable privacies. Probably no other famous figure in the world would have invited such a scheme, because none is so inaccessible and eccentric. With Howard Hughes, anything is always possible, which made Irving's story always plausible until the end came. It is tempting...
...self-willed forgetfulness of the larger institution--that the metaphor of the last veteran, outlandish as it seems, is not totally inapt. When we leave, the bonds and rifts which the strike set up between us will vanish, and the last few remnants of a collective mind which at odd moments during that battle seemed fused into one inchoate but unanimous rage will be atomized. For most, the strike will become something they did at college. It will be a historical phenomenon...