Word: oddest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chartered himself an airplane." The 39 passengers on TWA Flight 85, over Fresno and bound for San Francisco, suddenly realized that they had joined the growing ranks of the skyjacked. It was not simply the 55th case of skyjacking in 1969; it turned out to be the longest and oddest pirated flight in aviation history...
...oddest thing about the event was that Alice Springs is 1,000 miles from the sea, and the Todd, which has flowed only five times in the past ten years, was dry as a bone. Henley-on-Todd is the Aussies' put-down of England's very proper Henley-on-Thames Regatta. Fun it may be, but it also involves work: slogging through the sand of the riverbed is exhausting...
Arrayed against the impressive show of official strength will be, if plans jell, one of the oddest, least cohesive armies in history-an uncoordinated alliance of hippies, yippies, antiwar militants, unhappy liberals and far-out radicals. Goals vary from outright disruption of the convention proceedings to a ribald mockery of the electoral system. The yippies (members of the Youth International Party) plan to nominate a 220-Ib. pig, Pigasus, for President, on a platform of garbage-"just like the platform of all the other parties." Groups led by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet...
...concert commentator, he is the leading exponent of the sportscaster style ("The brasses are taking the theme and running ahead! Folks, this piece is definitely going to go into over time!"). His great contribution to musicology is the "discovery" of P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742)?, the last and oddest of Johann Sebastian's 20-odd offspring. As countless amused concertgoers and record buyers know, P.D.Q. is the perpetrator of such neglected works as Concerto for Horn and Hardart, Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, and the oratorio The Seasonings ("Bide thy thyme, now thy subscription's through...
LYTTON STRACHEY, by Michael Holroyd. The author of Eminent Victorians was undoubtedly the oddest duck on the Bloomsbury pond, a fact amply documented on nearly every one of the 1,229 fascinating pages of this two-volume biography...