Word: oddest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the oddest of many unexplained effects of strokes is that a patient's perception of the vertical is tilted. But whether it is tilted to right or left depends on which side of his brain has been injured. With paralysis on the left side, a right-handed man sees a bar of light as vertical when its top is actually tilted to the left-about 40°. Paralysis on the right side tilts the apparent vertical to the right, but only about half...
...army, along with the 25,000 men and women in paramilitary units, but he evidently feels that they are not enough for safety. To feel safer, he does not necessarily want help from Red China alone. Not long ago he advanced one of the year's oddest schemes, and one that should really wow Moscow and Peking. Unless he gets a firm new guarantee of his neutrality, the petulant prince warned, "I will have to ask People's China and the Soviet Union to send one division each to protect...
Foresight Was Rare. All during the wild skid that led to last week's "Black Monday," the U.S. press maintained what amounted to an unintentional conspiracy of silence. There were clues to be found back in the financial pages-but, even by the oddest journalistic judgment, that was hardly where the story belonged. And sometimes even the financial-page footprints were obscure. "The stock market acted yesterday like a diver going off a springboard," reported the New York Times in a heavy-handed attempt at cuteness. "It went up, down, up, and then plunged." The New York Post...
...Under Pope John, 53 of the church's princes served abroad as papal ambassadors or bishops of dioceses stretching from Tokyo to Munich. The other 34 cardinals, including eleven non-Italians, work in Rome as the papal cabinet, running the Curia. It is one of the oddest bureaucracies in the world, yet one of the most efficient. In 1960 the American Institute of Management rated the Roman Catholic Church, found it about as well run as General Motors...
...response to TIME'S Aug. 18 issue pinning a "newest oddity" or "oddest newity dunce cap on me for my long protest of Oilman Lawrence O'Connor's nomination to the Federal Power Commission and other aberrations from the senatorial norm, two corrections...