Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whenever I hear that newspaper mentioned I remember that as a young child living in Chicago some 70-odd years ago, my playmates and I had this favorite singing commercial...
Pharaon, a Saudi Arabian entrepreneur, on a deal for Pharaon to buy 120,000 of Lance's 200,000-odd shares in the National Bank of Georgia for $2.4 million. That bailed out Bert and enabled him to pay off some of his daunting loans...
...funny, they'd purposely laugh, look wild-eyed at each other, and exclaim, "Brilliant! Just brilliant!" 3) They were drinking champagne throughout the performance, and its smell, too, began to get to me after a while. 4) The theater was too hot for me. 5) I was the "odd man out" in a room which contained penguin clones and one self-proclaimed "critic" in a tan polyester suit. 6) Shortly after the second joking reference was made to McDonald's "fallen arches," I realized that I had already logged more time in the theater that evening than I had spent...
...fans may feel comfortable together at their conventions, but their odd interests often separate them into small groups. One of the more unusual of these groups is made up of aficionados of Georgette Heyer, an author of 19th century novels of manners. This group held a formal dance at Boskone; another group, the Society for Creative Anachronism, regularly holds jousts and tourneys in full medieval battle dress. The conventions attract devotees of horror movies, computers, historical and military games, comic books, and even puns. For the latter, Boskone included a special pun competition...
...last week in neighboring Nicaragua. Instead of crowds dancing in the streets, there were sullen troops guarding polls from which Nicaraguans chose to stay away in droves. The election, which was for municipal offices, was the setting for a grim confrontation between President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 52, and an odd but increasingly potent anti-Somoza coupling of radical guerrillas of the Sandinista movement and conservative Nicaraguan businessmen. Together the groups intend to bring Somoza down and end 42 years of dictatorial Somoza family rule...