Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That event, however, seems a remote calamity. As he celebrated his 90th birthday and the publication of his 90th-odd book last week, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse-known as "Plum" to his friends and "Plummie" to Ethel, his wife of 57 years-was still in good form, working on a new novel and surrounded by the inevitable dogs and cats in his house at Remsenburg, a serene little town on Long Island's south shore...
Twenty-nine years and twenty-odd books ago, Wright Morris brought out of Nebraska a troop of crabbed characters, blown a little lopsided by those howling winds of the Great Plains. Ever since, he has been putting them through literary paces that have justifiably made him the most admired of America's little-read novelists...
...comic timing, and Matthau gives a carefully detailed impersonation of a Californian slipping into his anecdotage. He is both abetted and hindered by his director, a new boy named Jack Lemmon. Matthau and Lemmon first worked together as fellow actors in Fortune Cookie and consolidated their partnership in The Odd Couple. Lemmon obviously has great affection for his sidekick; in 114 minutes, the star is hardly ever offscreen...
Last week's election drew the largest turnout in the station's history, according to Perkins. Fifty-six of WHRB's 90-odd members showed...
...Robert Triffin. Either way, the end result would be the same: the dollar would buy fewer yen, marks, guilders and other strong currencies. Theoretically, it is true, U.S. devaluation would also make the dollar worth less in terms of Brazilian cruzeiros, Chilean escudos, Indonesian rupiahs and 100-odd other weak or minor currencies. Most of the weak-currency nations, however, probably would devalue simultaneously or soon after the dollar went down; those that did not would see the prices of U.S. products drop in their lands, which would help to spur American exports...