Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vacations are growing more strenuous?occasions more for doing than for sightseeing. It takes an odd mixture of the Spartan and the hedonist to "relax" by boating, hiking, backpacking, climbing, jogging, bicycling, hang-gliding or white-water canoeing. As measured by spending, leisure-time activities have grown to be the chief U.S. industry. Americans are expected to spend more than $160 billion on such leisure and recreation in 1977, and by 1985 the total will probably climb to $300 billion...
...odd wills or pseudo-wills have appeared, prompting an army of lawyers to do combat for various relatives and other claimants. They range from a maternal aunt, through ninth cousins, to Rice University, the Boy Scouts and Actress Terry Moore, who claims a secret marriage to Hughes. The state of Texas also has attorneys attempting to establish Hughes as a resident at the time of death, which could net $100 million in state inheritance taxes. And finally, there are about ten lawsuits pending against the Hughes estate. Among them: three Texas banks trying to retrieve loans to Hughes...
...Mess. Stevens, 48, a onetime construction worker from Oklahoma, took his dream to the folk at Stonybrook Full Gospel Temple down in Fremont, a Pentecostal church that he had scraped together. After a prayer meeting, five of the 70-odd parishioners agreed to sell their houses to make up half the down payment. The other half is due in August; then come stiff monthly payments...
...patience: "If there's no somethin' wrang wi' her the noo, there'll be somethin' wrang wi' her when Ah get ma haunds oan 'er." Gradually, though, the "hoot, mon" appearance of words on the page disappears, replaced by the odd, lilting music of street, sitting room...
...Paris, stacked floor to ceiling with rolled canvases and folios of prints, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse had their first one-man shows. (Cézanne was 53 when Vollard "discovered" him in 1892 by buying five oils at auction for a paltry 900-odd francs.) Buying cheap and selling dear, he got in on the ground floor of Gauguin, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Vuillard, Renoir and Chagall as well. He then ploughed his fortune back into the publication of artists' prints and deluxe editions of texts classical and modern...