Word: oddly
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Still at issue, though, was a key demand for amnesty for 400-odd students. In a press conference, Hayakawa cautiously refrained from claiming victory, and promised to withhold decision on disciplinary penalties involving more than probation until after April 11. "This commitment," he explains, "is made in order to give the B.S.U.-T.W.L.F. the opportunity to demonstrate their leadership in establishing peaceful conditions on campus." Until then, a force of more than 150 riot-equipped San Francisco police will continue to patrol the troubled campus...
...What odd values! I think possession of pot should be no crime at all, and 15 days would seem about right for a weak punch or two thrown in anger. But interfering with the freedom to teach and learn is a very serious offense and two years (with some remission, I trust, when he shows he understands) seem particularly disproportionate had he been convicted of that offense. E. S. Pattullo
What lies behind this problem is fairly easy to induce. Cambridge has an odd problem for a core city: a lot of people, particularly a lot of people with money, want to live here. The reason, of course, is the presence of two large universities, which draw large numbers of students and, more important, hangers-on ranging from hippies to young professionals, onto the City's housing market. Moreover, the Inner Belt will, in the foreseeable future, displace 1200 to 1500 Cambridge families and the Route 2 extension into North Cambridge a somewhat smaller numbers...
Before long, if other income can be found for impoverished hunters, Canada may turn the St. Lawrence Gulf into a seal sanctuary. Even the grizzled swilers should be relieved. They do not particularly enjoy the annual bloodbath themselves. Newfoundlanders have odd names for almost everything; a spring storm is "Sheila's brush," strong tea is "switchel" and floating ice is variously described as "growlers," "bergy hits" and "dumpers." But where biologists clinically refer to female seals as cows, the craggy Newfoundlanders never do. To them, they are always "mothers...
Then the deal broke down. The 480-odd union shop stewards, fearing that their power over "the lads on the floor" might slip if they could no longer call wildcat walkouts, ordered a strike of the 46,500 workers. Then leaders of the two top unions reversed themselves and fell into step with the shop stewards. Ford appealed to the courts, but in vain. As the judge said, labor contracts in Britain are "binding only in honor...