Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...definitive summation of his theories concerning power, money, work, and conscience. Of all Shaw's outpourings, this is perhaps the most purely comic in tone, and therefore affords a splendid view of the craftsman at work, of a half century of theatrical experience synthesized into two hours and some odd of laugh piled upon laugh. That the play also manages to come briefly to grips with a serious theme is, well, downright remarkable...
Cambridge is the only one of the nation's 70-odd model cities that guarantees residents control of the CDA and also the right to veto any of its proposals in a referendum such as was held last weekend...
Cambridge is the only one of the 70-odd communities participating in the Model Cities program that gives residents of the model neighborhood--a 268-acre area east of Central Square--control over the board running the program and the right to veto any of the board's proposals in a referendum. It is believed that all 29 proposals will be approved...
...menu should not merely list food," says Denis O'Sullivan, a vice president of the New York printing firm of B. R. Doerfler, which turns out menus for 625 different restaurants. "It should be a front-line salesman." Bold typography, two-color art work, odd shapes (a coffee mug, the state of Texas), and archaic or arcane spellings ("Chef's Sallet," "Stake wyth Asparagus," "Colde Lobfter") all provoke the diner's eye into paying attention to the day's specials. The most honest and sardonic sell of all is practiced by the Brookline, Mass., delicatessen...
Barring a miracle, it was. Eagle faced insurmountable troubles, some of which also worry Britain's 30-odd other independent airlines. The biggest problem is that they all compete directly with government-owned and government-favored British European Airways and British Overseas Airways Corp. While those two lines were awarded the profitable high-density routes, Eagle got hand-me-downs; it was authorized to fly to such secondary tourist centers as Rimini and Gerona. The government really plucked Eagle's feathers when it decided to ferry troops overseas aboard R.A.F. VC-10s instead of Eagle planes. Finally, when...