Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...level plan to dispense $6,100,000 to assist House and Senate candidates, nearly twice the figure for the last off-year election. The Democrats, still paying off 1964 debts, say they will be able to supply only about $500,000 from Washington, not counting the $ 1,000,000-odd being spent-almost entirely on Democrats-by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Committee on Political Education. This is in addition, of course, to the millions being expended at the local and state levels. One U.S. Senator calculates that the price of running has risen one-third in the past six years...
Like many scientists before him, Caltech Graduate Student Thomas McCord was searching for other answers when he made his unexpected discovery. Curious about the odd behavior of the planet Neptune's two moons, Triton and Nereid, he set out to make a mathematical analysis of their unusual orbits. Last week in the Astronomical Journal, he reported that his two-year, computer-aided investigation had not only accounted for the current state of the Neptunian satellites but had also given him a startling glimpse into the future: Triton, largest of the two moons, is doomed to smash into Neptune...
...almost four decades, the Intercollegiate Conference, otherwise known as the Big Ten, has dominated U.S. college football - producing more national champions (13) and more All-Americas (250-odd), gleefully running up the scores against outmanned intersectional opponents. "When you're winning," shrugged Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes, "you don't need friends." And any Big Ten coach who did not win was likely to get the classic advice from his alumni: "The Super Chief pulls out of town in 20 minutes. Be under...
...must be there, if only to be looked at and puzzled over." Eble regrets the stuffiness of teachers' colleges that tend to stifle the one quality an elementary teacher needs most to deal with his young charges: "imagination-the kind of mind that is playful, fanciful, odd in the relationships it perceives...
Once again, the reputation of the National League was safe. After five months and 800-odd games, the league was still struggling to find a champion all last week. Not that there was any dearth of pretenders...