Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report circulating in the beverage industry that the company's archrival, Coca-Cola, has quietly sought-and won-a Russian license to sell Coke at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Coca-Cola officials refuse to discuss the matter, which they say is "very sensitive." But it would be odd if the Kremlin were not aware of Coca-Cola Chairman J. Paul Austin's longtime interest in Russia -and his friendship with Jimmy Carter...
...self-reading at face value and ignore him for writers who practice legerdemain less self-consciously. Yet Calvino's specialability is to perform magic by ex posing it. At first, the patent artifice of The Castle of Crossed Destinies demands disbelief. By the end, an odd conviction displaces skepticism: maybe life really is all in the cards...
...past, each of the players would wear an alligator of a different color, but Sullivan's generosity produced a uniform appearance which, appropriately enough, was either a blazing red or a not so blazing red, depending on whether you were an odd or an even...
...Odd-ranked matches are played first in squash so the courts were empty when number two man Clark Bain deftly won, 3-0. Any squash player would appreciate his successful mixture of lob, cross court, and slam shots. Too bad most of them were on their way to Milton...
MOST BLATANT-AND LONGEST-COMMERCIAL INTERRUPTION: a 90-minute plug masquerading as live coverage of a celebrity jolly-up, which launched NBC's Big Event series. Besides hyping the series, the stars tediously promoted their upcoming films-all, by an odd coincidence, Paramount releases...