Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...odd," Young said, "since we have raised the money we need to give to the College. The rest is for things like studio equipment, which we will buy ourselves...
...might well be more psychological than financial -- a search for success in some field more socially prestigious than the liquor business that began with grandfather Sam Bronfman. In 1919 Sam took over a hotel business upon the death of Yechiel Bronfman, who had brought the family to Canada 20-odd years earlier from Czarist Russia. Sam quickly took advantage of Prohibition in the neighboring U.S. He sold liquor to U.S. bootleggers and stockpiled much more whiskey; then, when Prohibition was repealed in 1933, he could slake American thirsts legally...
Comprising 70-odd pieces from such journals as the New York Post, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic and the current home of his column, New York Newsday, Kempton's book calls forth a cavalcade of heroes and scoundrels of the past 50 years and more -- among them Benito Mussolini, F.D.R., Richard Nixon, Bessie Smith, Karl Marx, Goya, Roy Cohn, Cassius Clay and one Stella Valenza, a housewife on trial for "hiring three mechanics to rid her of her husband, Felice." To Kempton, the insignificant deserves as much attention as the momentous; he gives the auctioning...
Ubaldo stood at third with two outs when an odd sequence of events led to the winning run. Cicero, pitching to catcher Wilke, wild-pitched Ubaldo home on an attempted squeeze. Cicero said that there was a mix-up on the pitch with Wilke, but the rare two-out suicide squeeze attempt must have added to the confusion...
Beyond tactics, moreover, the U.N. has no strategy. Nothing holds the pieces together. There are thousands of peacekeeping troops; on-again, off-again negotiations; the occasional ultimatum, flexibly enforced; the odd air strike. Amounting to what...