Word: oddest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oldest and oddest Christian practices may be beginning a revival in the U.S. Even some Episcopalians are practicing glossolalia; see RELIGION, Speaking in Tongues...
...Oddest of all, perhaps, is the situation in West Germany. There businessmen are frantically trying to find workers to fill 500,000 jobs. At the latest count, there were only 137,382 unemployed in the republic's entire work force of 24.6 million, an astounding .6% rate of unemployment. One Düsseldorf department store advertised for saleswomen, promised: "If you live out of town, we have pickup points. You meet interesting people, are offered free lunch and given a 15% discount on everything in the store...
Citizens of all political complexions turned out for a down-with-H-bombs rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, but the oddest pair seemed to be Topeka's Old Republican Alfred Mossman London and the widow of the man who overwhelmed him in the 1936 presidential election, Old Democrat Eleanor Roosevelt. Landon, 72, and Mrs. Roosevelt, 75, obviously struck responsive chords with each other in their mutual endorsement of a "sane nuclear policy." Neither of them, however, joined a ban-the-bomb march after the rally. That was left to more militant demonstrators, such as Old Socialist...
...that all his hair fell out. No crammer, Ronald was a bit of a prankster. He particularly disliked Classmate Hugh Dalton, later Chancellor of the Exchequer. On an exam paper asking "What are the oldest parts of the book of Exodus?" Ronald altered Dalton's paper to read "oddest," and the future politico listed all of the grosser passages...