Word: odder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some victims are hauled out by hooks from the edge of this zone of silence: they wake up unharmed. Promptly, of course, official hush-hush seals off Midwich and its sleeping citizenry. After two nights and a day the mysterious influence lifts, but the villagers awake to an even odder situation than their unreal coma...
Alex Smith looked odd as Mike Mansfield walked away leaving him with arm upraised, but Mansfield's claim was odder. Yet there was some truth in it: paradoxically, Mansfield and his fellow Democrats had managed to deny Ike a request by upholding presidential powers...
...doctor after doctor reported on his studies and experiments, a unified pattern was, at first, scarcely apparent. Nor would it be from the odder bits of work in progress, ranging from male volunteers who are taking female hormones, willing to run the risk of being feminized in hopes of having their artery-hardening arrested, to Duke University's Dr. James Warren, who is about to head for Africa to learn more about how the giraffe keeps its blood pressure under control...
...power, worn by lion-strangling heroes in the bloody days of Assurnasirpal. The powerfully striding thighs are molded with an easy naturalism virtually unknown until the time of the Greeks, yet the cylindrical form and spellbound air of the entire figure are pre-Grecian. The boots are even odder than the horned helmet they counterpoint. Hittite sculptures sometimes have upturned toes, but never so exaggerated. A few experts guess that the boots are a sort of combination ski and snowshoe, pointing to a mountain origin, yet most of the body is naked to the cold...
...direct aid from Washington. It has also had a disastrous effect on Brazilian workers. The real wages of many workers in Rio shrank within the past five years, as beef soared from 9 cruzeiros a kilogram in 1950 to 46 today, butter from 34 to no. One of the odder symptoms of mass discontent is the mushroom growth of umbanda or espiritismo, a white-magic religious cult with elaborate African rituals. There were 75,000 registered espiri-tistas in Rio in 1949, 124,000 in 1950; today there are some 400,000, and the national total runs into millions...