Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...odd-numbered seeds took to the courts first and the overflowing crowd, many who had been there for over an hour, settled down to watch the long awaited showdown between the two best college racquetmen in the country, the Crimson's Mike Desaulniers and Tom Page of Princeton...
...very vague about his Harvard duties because, as he explains it, "I like to remain a little mysterious." He will do nothing that would jeopardize his image as a living legend, including consent to an interview. He fears that interviewers would be mainly concerned with odd experiences that he has had during his career as a proctor, and stories about funny things that happen in exams ignore what is really humorous about them. "I am the comic element in these exams," he explains. Some day he will reveal all, Edwards says, but in the meantime, he wants to remain...
...doubt. The Soviet military is the No. 1 intelligence issue and must remain so. But without neglecting the cardinal line of defense, we've got to be able to tackle a much wider range of subjects. Today we've got to look at most of the 150-odd countries of the world. We have legitimate needs for good intelligence information on many of them. That transcends military matters. It gets into the economic as well as the political area. So the character of the whole organization has got to shift to accommodate these new factors...
...thirsty world. Though 57% of their exported oil goes to Eastern Europe at prices 20% to 30% below OPEC levels, the rest is sold to the West, and in 1976 brought in $4.6 billion, nearly half of the country's foreign earnings. Even the U.S. buys an odd tankerload of Russian...
...that, and now we don't intend to forget. We hope that, gradually, other people will come to share that vision; that one day we'll all expect jobs that let us work for shared goals, not just for money. Then the Steve's strike won't seem so odd...