Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed its tender youth in a favorable climate. During the past six years, while TV sets were becoming common articles of furniture, the sun had few spots to mess up TV reception. Now sunspots are increasing on their nine-to 13-year cycle, and televiewers are apt to see odd and sometimes annoying effects...
Some Middle East specialists estimate that he pays out more than $50 million a year to keep desert tribes loyal. Ibn Saud had a father's control over his 40-odd sons. Saud has only the stature of eldest brother, and the power of his purse. There is inevitable rivalry with his brother, Crown Prince Feisal, though the old King, when death was near, made the two swear on the Koran never to oppose each other...
Next, his police moved on the 500-odd opium dens in South Viet Nam, and in closing them down, undertook a campaign to rehabilitate some 20,000 addicts. Thousands of confiscated bamboo pipes-kindled by stacks of pornographic literature -were burned in Saigon's central marketplace, and antivice dragon dancers whirled through the streets. Madame Paula turned up working in a pastry shop...
...London club not long ago, a doddering ancient buttonholed an odd-looking chap, said to have once been a Hungarian, of all things, who had just written something or other against Communism. "Well, young man, I am glad that at last you have come round to see reason," snuffled the old member. "I myself knew 25 years ago what Bolshevism means, and it's never too late to repent." The younger character was Arthur Koestler, now 50, and he found the old man's attitude highly irritating. U.S. readers who, unlike Arthur Koestler, have never been Communists...
...denounce it are no saints." ¶The Seven Deadly Fallacies (e.g., confusion of Left and East, the anti-anti attitude) and a brilliant Guide to Political Neuroses (e.g., collective amnesia, eternal adolescence) are probably his most valuable essays-and most highly calculated to inflict flesh wounds on those odd fellows who, sometimes without knowing it, still travel with the fellow travelers...