Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were threatening to strike if some 100 terrorists in French jails were not executed immediately, clapped a midnight-to-dawn curfew on the whole city. But the tide of hate ran on. In a single day 47 rebels and two Frenchmen were killed. The. dead bodies of another 100-odd victims were turned up in the course of the week. The president of the Algerian Assembly resigned, declaring: "The Franco-Musulman community has ceased to exist." French reinforcements poured into the ports, the first contingents of two new divisions ordered there from Germany. At week's end Lacoste hurried...
Under the Mattress. Next day Sophocleous did not turn up for work. Her suspicions aroused, the housekeeper reported his odd action of the previous day. Guards rushed to the field marshal's bedroom...
...Milan, Family Doctor DeTar runs a one-man show at a pace that would weaken many a younger physician. After wolfing his breakfast, he slips by nine into his elaborate ground-floor office (laboratory, three examination rooms, four secretaries) to welcome the first of the day's 35-odd office patients. After four or five house calls in his 1950 Oldsmobile sedan, DeTar often skips lunch (to his wife's despair), sees more office callers until 7:30. After a quiet, 45-minute dinner with his wife, he climbs the stairs to his small study to catch...
...write in rhyming couplets, and in the nineteenth century Darwin caused the birth of Robber Barons and the death of Louis Agassiz. Now, once again (almost with the frequency of the Russians) science has changed its party line, leading one to suspect that it favors "struggle" theories in odd centuries and "harmony" theories in even ones. Scientists may enjoy the stimulation of constantly changing ideas. However, they ought to realize the hardship which they are imposing on the rest of suffering humanity, which must change its view entirely...
...with the harp in its center." In "The Power of Laughter: Weapon Against Evil," O'Casey voices his deepest conviction: "Laughter is wine for the soul . . . Once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living ... It is odd how many seem to be curiously envious of laughter, never of grief . . . The saying is all wrong-it should be 'Grieve and the world grieves with you; laugh and you laugh alone...