Word: odd
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Foreign lines court popularity by keeping fares low. On the Italian railroads, 80% of the passengers ride at reduced rates or pay nothing at all; full fares are paid only by tourists and the few odd souls who do not fit into any of the categories in the eleven-column, fine-print list of those entitled to "special" rates. In the Italian railway hierarchy, cardinals rate free private compartments; judges and most government officials get free seats; bishops, crippled people and journalists qualify for 20% to 70% fare reductions...
Jesus, I thought. You mean that this woman has lived 60-odd years thinking that her presence in rooms causes the ceilings to leak...
...process, he determined to revenge himself on Harvard by donating a grotesquely hideous building, which is now known as the Lampoon Castle (and always has been, since Hearst was a member of the Lampoon in his undergraduate days). The building is for some odd reason triangular in shape, and has five street addresses (count em): 29 Plympton St., 44 Bow St., 57 Mt. Auburn St., 1 Holyoke Court, and Zero Freedom Square). The tenants of this building put out a magazine several times a year, which brings us to our next point...
Most of these students would argue that if driven far enough, they would favor violence. But by and large, they are against it, not necessarily on principle but because they consider it a self-defeating tactic. It is odd to find, by the way, how grateful one is these days to anyone who announces that he eschews violence. It used to be a minimal attitude, it almost went without saying that one opposed violent methods. Now, on hearing that assurance, we are inclined to rush up to the speaker, shake his hand and embrace him as a brother moderate...
...things, the first sex symbol of educational television (if one ignores Julia Child). Susan is Fleur, the exquisite arch-bitch of The Forsyte Saga, a role for which she last week won an Emmy Award as the best actress in a dramatic series. In most of the 40-odd other countries that have been enthralled by the greatest soap opera ever filmed, Susan is already a major star. In Norway a mob of 60,000 turned out to see her-in a town of only...