Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reminders of the American experience in Indochina. But America, apparently, does, and the detailed portraits of individuals Emerson gives us are far more moving than statistics could be. It is the small things about the war, the minor tragedies, that hurt. Emerson calls one section of the book "Odd things not yet forgotten," but the phrase could be the title of the book as a whole, a collection of small incidents that should be remembered...
...odd couple last week marked another milestone in the space age. For the first time, a vehicle designed to orbit the earth, land and fly again was flight-tested-but not alone. As 10,000 people watched, the U.S. space-shuttle orbiter Enterprise soared off a runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California, while locked tenaciously atop a huge and expensively modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The combined load of 293 tons (72 of them in the 122-ft.-long Enterprise] not only rose smoothly ("No tail shake at all," reported 747 Pilot Fitzhugh Fulton Jr.) but maneuvered...
...better alternative is to turn to one of the 170-odd nonprofit community credit counseling services. The services make the debtor sign an agreement to take on no more credit and to hand over all his charge cards. Often a counselor will scissor the cards to pieces before the debtor's eyes. The service then negotiates extended repayment of the loans and collects a fixed monthly payment from the debtor that it parcels out among the creditors...
...businessman who took part in this odd dialogue is about to become a star He was working out the script, costuming and lighting of his own personal sex fantasy, which he will act out with the Project, a theater group that has been performing in a creaking loft in lower Manhattan. During both their regular shows and the weekly audience-participation night, the Project's five actors and actresses concentrate with missionary zeal on their goal: to purge the demons of the audience's sexual fantasies...
...match was far from a runaway. As odd-numbered matches were all played first, the match was actually tied, 2-2, after victories by Moore and Mleczko in the first and third seeds and setbacks in the number five and seven slots...