Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the Secretary soft-pedaled violations of nuclear arms agreements by the U.S.S.R., of running "a secret, Metternichian policy that seeks to mislead, not to lead, and of "creating peace in our time by pushing disaster into our children's future." The Admiral's assault seems an odd political tactic since Byrd, also a supporter of the Pentagon, has not taken any stand for or against Kissinger's policies. Nevertheless, veteran Virginia politicians give Zumwalt a slim fighting chance to upset Byrd...
...startling spurt in volume reflects a fortunate confluence of willing sellers and even more eager buyers. Odd-lot statistics (those on trades of fewer than 100 shares) indicate that the sellers are largely individual investors. Many had ridden their stocks up from the market's 1974 low of 577.6 on the Dow Jones average, and now stood to recover some of their earlier losses or, in some cases, to pocket profits. As 663 of the 2,111 issues on the Big Board touched 1975-76 highs last week, some of their owners began to sell...
...mildly, the thirty-odd white, middle-aged working men in my class at the Veterans' Division of Newbury Junior College did not agree. "He's a bitter man!" "A Communist!" "A fag" they'd cried when I'd read them the excerpt in our classroom at St. Mary's High School in Central Square, and for a while their venom threatened to dissolve fragile bonds of trust built with their Harvard graduate-student teacher over six short weeks...
...Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No I don't. Do I think ours is on balance incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? (I mean by ours those two-dozen-odd democracies of the world.) Yes, I do. Have we done obscene things? Yes, we have. How did our people learn about them? They learned about them on television, in the newspapers...
...lack of social and sexual ease. "I went to a dance last night," she wrote at 23, "and found a dim corner where I sat and read In Memoriam. You see I am not successful." It was only in the rarefied atmosphere of Bloomsbury that her formidable mind and odd beauty were appreciated. Men like Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry accepted her, flirted with her, and in some cases proposed. At one point she and the homosexual Strachey became engaged, but both came to realize their folly and amicably called...