Word: oddest
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...Oddest of all, for a Communist state, Polish farms are mostly in private hands. When Gomulka took over, there were 10,510 cooperative farms; today there are only 1,718. Last week Minister of agriculture Edward Ochab dutifully made Marxist noises about the eventual desirability of collectivization, but told the congress that no government pressure will be brought to force farmers back under the collectivist yoke...
...correspondents, Jim Bell has suffered just about every vicissitude of the reporter's trade, including near mobbing at the hands of an Iranian mob that mistook him for Winston Churchill. But the charge that he seeks to disturb Philippine-U.S. relations is perhaps the oddest ever directed at him. Few Americans have more affection and respect for the Filipino people. Kansas-born Jim Bell spent the formative years of his youth in northern Luzon, returned to the Philippines as an Army officer in World War II, has kept close ties with the islands ever since...
Smith has some of the oddest working habits of any man in top industry. His typewriter is the most important piece of equipment American owns, and Smith pecks away at it for hours on end. He writes all his own speeches, many of American's institutional ads and stockholders' reports. Though he had the same secretary for 25 years (until she retired recently), he never let her write more than a handful of letters a year...
Kansas' former State Democratic Chairman, Marvin A. ("Mike") Harder, 36, professor of political science at the Municipal University of Wichita, last week lost his own precinct committeeman's seat to Donald E. Anderson, 23. Winner Anderson's oddest qualification: he earned his political science degree last June after racking up a high grade in the political parties course taught by Professor Harder...
...staged for his cameras, Thomas intoned between chuckles: "The bad guys. Versus the good guys . . . Make it look good, Achmed! My grandmother's watching on TV." All this and Timbuktu appeared in Thomas' latest color adventure, a grab bag of odds and ends on African superstitions. The oddest was a weirdly effective sequence showing how the Hova of Madagascar dig up their dead each year, roll them in shiny new wrappings and carry them about in a gay shuffle dance before returning them to their graves-a ritual precisely symbolic (though Thomas did not note it) of regular...