Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alexander arrived at the 19%-23% figure not by tallying the percentage of blacks and Puerto Ricans in Cambridge (19.5%) but by counting the number of nonwhites available for jobs in the 20-odd crafts covered by the contracts. Moreover, if the builder is unable to recruit sufficient numbers, Harvard has the right to supply the minority workers...
...arrival of the Year of the Dog, government flags flew from every home and the town was almost completely rebuilt. In Hue, nearly wrecked by savage street fighting two years ago, crowds flocked to the reconstructed market, buying New Year gifts for their families from the 2,000-odd vendors. Pretty Saigon girls in ao dais posed for their boy friends' cameras before the city's monuments. All over war-wracked South Viet Nam there were similar festive scenes. Only the traditional firecrackers were missing; they were banned because they sound too much like gunfire. Temporarily, at least...
...fortifications? At first, Marcos spoke of "nonstudent provocateurs." By week's end he was talking of "an insurrection" and a "plan to take over Malacanang Palace" organized by agitators who "believe in Mao Tse-tung." It was an odd performance for a normally ebullient man who only last November became the first President in Philippine history to win a second term. Marcos' current siege mentality is widely attributed to the influence of one Virginia Dimalanta, a soothsayer who has predicted that he will be assassinated before April by "a light-skinned man wearing a suit." Long before...
...odd parking spaces of the program represent the minimum Harvard must build during the next five years to comply with local zoning codes' parking requirements for buildings the University plans to construct during that period...
...avid biology student at James Madison High School, where he was put into a corrective-speech class to overcome his shyness. On weekends he prowled Brooklyn's Prospect Park for interesting "goop" to study under the microscope. He put himself through Columbia University with a variety of odd jobs, including researching medieval coinage for an economics teacher. He graduated in 1937 with honors in zoology and a faith in the liberal causes of the time, such as the Scottsboro boys and the Spanish Loyalists. Bright and ambitious, he went to Harvard, closeted himself in a laboratory for three years...