Word: odder
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...deep forest comes across a bearded old hermit who asks whether Prohibition was ever repealed or whether William Jennings Bryan ever got elected President of the U.S. Last week the House Un-American Activities Committee, investigating Communist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...
...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...