Word: oddest
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...upper layers of the atmosphere to change the earth's climate. Now Robert T. Jones of NASA'S Ames Research Center, near San Francisco, has suggested a radical new SST design that he claims would overcome most of these objections. It would also be one of the oddest looking planes ever to take...
Then V. made an inaccurate projection of the barley harvest, or anyway he was accused of an inaccurate projection. Before anyone could say E = mc2, he was detained in a white, windowless room in the oddest sort of building ("everything from Byzantine to modern institutional"): an unnamed political prisoner in an unnamed state...
What brought him forth was a controversy that had been building since the announcement on Dec. 7 that McGraw-Hill would publish The Autobiography of Howard Hughes, and LIFE would print excerpts from it. In one of the oddest consultations since those of the Cumaean sibyl, Hughes (or a man purporting to be him) spoke from Paradise Island for 2 hours with reporters arrayed before a telephone amplifier in a California hotel. The disembodied voice denied any knowledge of the book or its author. Later Hughes' agents sought an injunction to prevent its publication...
...Oddest of all is a set of Central African lyres like the one below. Instead of using the usual gourds, the resourceful Africans lopped off human heads, scooped out the contents and covered the tops with parchment and strings. They left a little hair around the ears for decoration...
...imperious daughter of the late Jawaharlal Nehru. Indira wants "a fresh mandate" for her New Congress Party so that she may pursue her populist policies, which so far have not gone very far toward solving India's multitudinous problems. Squared off against Indira is one of the oddest political alliances ever hatched. The four-party coalition, formed in January, consists of the right-wing, free-enterprise Swatantra Party; the Hindi-speaking, anti-Moslem Jana Sangh; the Opposition Congress Party, a split-off from Indira's Congress Party; and the Samyukta Socialist Party (not to be confused with...