Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blacks have chosen the white Santas. It is perhaps sad to impose racial politics upon the mythologies of children, but the reasons for the choices are intriguing. The simplest explanation may be that children have almost always seen only white Santas, thus the black man looks odd in the role. But maybe some of the black mothers are making a deliberate choice. Department store Santas can't deliver the goods, of course, only promises, promises. It may be that some mothers prefer to have such gentle hypocrisy emanating from a white Santa Claus...
...downplaying the catastrophe, saying that "only" 16,000 had been killed. Though people were still reported floating alive offshore three days after the cyclone, the Pakistani navy was never ordered to search for survivors. Some 500,000 tons of grain were stockpiled in East Pakistan warehouses, but the 40-odd Pakistani army helicopters that could have airlifted them to the delta sat on their pads in West Pakistan. India, the government explained-falsely-would not allow the craft to be ferried over 1,000 miles of its territory. President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan waited a total of 13 days before...
Poking through the fossil collection of The Netherlands' Teyler Museum in September, Yale Paleontologist John H. Ostrom spotted one musty specimen that looked odd to his trained eye. It was labeled pterosaur, a flying reptile that inhabited the earth from 65 to 200 million years ago. But when Ostrom held the fossil to the light, he saw the distinctly unreptilian impression of a feather. "My heartbeat began going up fast," recalls Ostrom, who quickly recognized that the specimen was not a pterosaur at all. It was, in fact, a far rarer prehistoric aviator: an Archaeopteryx (literally "ancient wing...
Exotic excursions into odd corners of cookery have some license to charm rather than instruct. But a working cookbook should be a textbook. It requires patient research, decent expository prose, and-on the publisher's part-painstaking work on editing and layout. Most cookbooks seem to aim solely for brevity. Beat the eggs with the sugar simply will not do unless it is followed by how long to beat and what the result should look or act like. No cookbook user is unfamiliar with that terse and truly enigmatic staple of mousse and souffle recipes: Fold in egg whites...
Another HEW official- Walter Bailey, who is acting as a liaison between the agency's Washington and Boston offices- acknowledged that although some information for the study is still "trickling in ... we obtained virtually all the data which we needed 30-odd days...