Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation may be in better shape this July 4 than it has been since at least Nov. 22, 1963. The economy's recuperation is progressing. An odd and fascinating primary season seems to have demonstrated the health of the political system-and produced a new face or two to engage voters' imaginations for the future. Watergate is finally interred. Above all, after 13 consecutive years of assassinations, race riots, youth rebellion, Viet Nam, political scandal, presidential collapse, energy crisis and recession, the nation's mood seems optimistic again. Today's leading scandal-sex on Capitol Hill...
...anyone can drive away the 100-odd British ships blockading New York Harbor, it might be a shy Connecticut inventor who has devised a strange new weapon of maritime warfare. David Bushnell, 35, calls it a "submarine vessel," also known as the Turtle. Like that creature, it can dive under water and attack its enemies by surprise. It strikes them with an explosive device that its creator has named, after the electric ray, a torpedo...
...choice is not so odd as it seems. The son of a minister, Tytler worked his way through medical school. He has tried out as both surgeon and apothecary, and failed in several tries and in several places. When the Britannica proprietors found him, he was in Holyrood House, that sanctuary for debtors, working at a press of his own design and printing his essays on religion and politics. As a man who may not bestride but at least straddles the worlds of both scientific and religious thought?though admittedly master of neither?he may be ideally suited...
...deep waters of the newly formed lake. Spotting a floating tree trunk ahead, Tomas Perez, a Panamanian Indian, gave the motor full throttle, then lifted the propeller out of the water. The canoe slid easily over the log, hardly disturbing its other occupants, TIME correspondent Bernard Diederich and an odd assortment of caged animals. Following closely behind were two more cayucos manned by other Panamanians and a fiberglass boat carrying the project leader, U.S. Biologist John Walsh, 35. The little flotilla was part of a project called Operation Noah II, sponsored by the London-based International Society for the Protection...
Uneasy over the country's growing reputation as an Alpine penny pincher, the government recently won parliamentary support for a modest $80 million contribution to the World Bank to help the world's neediest nations. But an odd coalition of extreme left-and right-wing politicians launched a popular initiative against the proposal.When it came to a referendum last week, the Swiss resoundingly rejected the aid scheme, 713,855 to 550,557. The Tribune de Genève fretted that the outcome betrayed an "egoistic, isolationist trait in the Swiss character," but that hardly came as a surprise...