Word: odder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storms. Until that happens, which may not be soon, they must be content with shreds of information picked up in other ways. Jupiter sends out fairly powerful radio waves, which first seemed to indicate that the temperature of the atmosphere is surprisingly high: up to 1,000° F. Odder still, the temperature apparently fluctuates over a wide range...
...churches must keep books as well as the Book. One of the odder financial problems besetting the Roman Catholic Church came to light in Lourdes last week. The occasion: a stern message to his flock from Bishop Pierre-Marie Théas of Tarbes and Lourdes, a churchman who has long battled commercialization of France's famed shrine (TIME, July 21). This time Bishop Théas' anger was aimed at Lourdes' own Roman Catholic Information Center: "Henceforth Catholics must, as a matter of conscience, abstain from membership, gifts or subscriptions [to the center]. The presence...
Communists, and even odder that the West should insist on the Russian right to stay in Berlin. But in pressing for the kind of recognition-whether de facto or formal-that would only cement the division of Germany, the Russians are obviously seeking the status quo that Khrushchev told Walter Lippmann is the goal of Soviet diplomacy...
...deep forest comes across a bearded old hermit who asks whether Prohibition was ever repealed or whether William Jennings Bryan ever got elected President of the U.S. Last week the House Un-American Activities Committee, investigating Communist infiltration in the entertainment industry, flushed a covey of even odder birds. They were hermitically behind the times, but they had been living in high-rent Manhattan apartments rather than wilderness caves. There was not a single white beard or coonskin cap among them: they were well-dressed, prosperous and seemingly very up to date. Chief specimens...
...when O'Neill suffered a winter heart attack (TIME, Feb. 10). But when the governor recovered and asked him to withdraw, Taft refused. Instead, he promised to do no campaigning beyond the confines of his own Hamilton County and thereby touched off one of the state's odder political campaigns...