Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inviting Veterans. Just how much the journalists would see of China was open to question, but anything, for a start, was better than nothing. Rich and his crew shot more than 10,000 ft. of color film during the visit and sent 30-odd voicecasts back to the U.S. via telephone relay. There was no evidence of censorship of dispatches from Peking, and China waived its rule requiring that all film be developed and inspected before shipment out of the country. But there was no indication that the journalists had much freedom to roam either. All film and copy were...
...seems odd that Weinrub-not the Physics Department-was charged with having prevented the speech. But Weinrub's accusers, lacking any direct evidence to support their claims, drew up a list of charges which would make most conspiracy trials look like open and shut cases by comparison. As chairman of the protesters' meeting. Weinrub was alleged to have violated the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities by not having overruled all discussion which advocated a violation of the resolution. In addition, he was said to have "prepare [d] signs of the sort normally used at political demonstrations." In response, several witnesses...
...small opposition came from an odd coalition: among the four voting against were Donald G.M. Anderson, chairman of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), and Hilary Putnam, a member of the Progressive Labor Party...
...odd way, the reader does not enter Buechner's rarefied world but stands outside admiring. Presently he realizes that Parr, the hero, and Buechner, who invented him, are standing there beside him too. So is all that is visible of Bebb. A conversation develops among the onlookers that is solid, witty and as full of profundity as one could wish for on a hot day. Disbelief is not suspended, but since things are so pleasant, there is no reason that it should...
Contacted last night at his Concord home, Wiggins gave as his main reason for retirement the fact that "the job has been getting more and more difficult over the years, and I've been getting more and more tired." "I've been working for forty-odd years," he said, "and I just want to take a rest and have a little freedom for a while...