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Word: odd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Twelve. (The City also threw in Park, Madison, Lexington and some other unnumbered avenues just to make it difficult.) The East Side is anything to the right of Fifth Avenue if you're facing north--that means Third Avenue, Second, etc. In general, even avenues run uptown, odd avenues run downtown. A couple run both ways, and Broadway is just plain weird. It runs diagonlly across the City from the Northwest to the Southwest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rockettes' Last Gleaming | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

...month late. This analysis explained that no progress had been achieved on the Middle East question in the Soviet-American talks-just as I had predicted during my Moscow visit late in April-in view of the fact that it was the U.S. election year. What was even more odd, the Soviet analysis conveyed to me by the Soviet ambassador said nothing at all about the failure to ship the requested weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of Identity | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...odious son of M. Diafoirus, Thomas (Randy Clark and Samuel Krisch). Thomas and his father are replete with useless "university" knowledge which they spout without even understanding. They are utter quacks, ordering Argan to put grains of salt on his eggs in even numbers, and take pills in odd numbered quantities...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: 'Invalid' Alive and Fairly Well | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

...been there on countless earlier occasions. Perhaps Sellon intends to play Tindle as a rather shallow gigolo, but he is not right for that interpretation--besides, Shaffer has taken great pains to show us a much more complex, sympathetic character, a young man understandably baffled by his host's odd behavior. Sellon's ultra-smooth Milo forgets to be incredulous. He improves in his later scenes, when the ordeals he undergoes, and his eventual mastery of the situation; give him a harried, tousled, wildeyed look, and at last his archness seems appropriate--but even here a good director should have...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Dime-Store Detectives | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...players complained all year about fan support at the home games and they were more than justified. The people in the odd-number sections at Watson were disgustingly more vocal all season, but then again, even an Ivy League replay of Broncomania might not have pulled the hard-luck Crimson through...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Harvard Hockey: Seasons Past and Present | 3/7/1978 | See Source »

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