Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Panthers have a considerable base of support among white liberals, many of whom seem to back the Panthers to assuage their guilt at not doing more to change the system. The relationship is an odd one. Panthers treat their white supporters like penitents, accepting their money and then calling them "honkies" and worse. Displaying a strange sense of masochism, whites take it and come back for more. At a recent party at the home of Author Jessica Mitford to raise funds for the Panthers, Hilliard engaged in a shouting match with Chicago" Seven Defendant Tom Hayden. "You mother- !" cried Hilliard...
...century; of a heart attack; in Wuppertal, Germany. Born and trained in Vienna, Neutra emigrated in 1923 to the U.S., where he studied under Frank Lloyd Wright before moving to California. Like Wright, he rejected the stern horizontals and verticals of the then popular International style, instead opted for odd angles, diagonal roofs, warm-colored woods and stones. Most of his work was done on the West Coast, which he graced with literally hundreds of schools, hospitals and private homes. As he once put it: "I try to make a house like a flowerpot, in which you can root something...
From the point of view of the Supreme Court's efficiency, the nomination ?and confirmation?of the ninth member cannot come too soon. The court has deferred work on numerous cases for want of manpower and because the odd, tie-breaking vote has been lacking. The seat has been vacant for eleven months. Further controversy poses another kind of risk. Though the court has never been as far removed from politics as idealists would like it to be, it depends heavily on political processes and its prestige and moral force to work its will. Its funds come from Congress...
...invading explorers from nine different countries man an odd armada that ranges the long shoreline of Indonesia. Their expanding expeditions have already spent well over $100 million, and the cost rises steadily. The gamble, they figure, is worth the price. So the big rigs throb day and night as crewmen drill deep into the continental shelf. They are all racing to tap the same treasure-an undersea source of oil that is far from the dangerous uncertainties of the Middle East and close to the great Japanese market. To make it even more attractive, the oil is "sweet crude," relatively...
Jesus, I thought, You mean that this woman has lived sixty-odd years thinking that her presence in rooms causes the ceilings to leak...