Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fishermen back, Peking promised that the fishermen would still be able to keep up to 40% of their catch. The Communists also put pressure on Macao fish merchants not to buy from the refugees. Both pressure and promise failed. In desperation, some fishermen tried eking out a living with odd jobs ashore, or by begging in the streets; they had almost nothing to eat in Macao, but still would not go back. Last week, with 500 Chinese junks still in Macao harbor, Peking tried another approach...
...winter of 1931-32, a gang of 300-odd storm troopers invaded the university in Frankfurt and beat up leftist students. Tillich stood horrified in the midst of the melee, and in the investigation that followed took a vociferous part against the Nazi thugs. As soon as Hitler came to power the following year, Tillich read in the newspaper that he had been dismissed from the faculty...
Ultrasonic machines are used for hospital and industrial cleaning and degreasing. They can join metals previously impossible to weld or solder, drill square and other odd-shaped holes in brittle materials, such as germanium and glass. They will measure any liquid, including exotic jet fuels, and liquid oxygen in rockets. The aircraft, electronic and missile makers have been a major spur to the growth of ultrasonics. Before the development of ultrasonic cleaners, jet-engine nozzles and oil filters had to be thrown away when dirty. Now imbedded residue can be removed in minutes through the use of sound energy...
...believes, the professorial crowd managed to justify its concession to television as a sort of moral compensation" for the national ignorance. In the absence of anyone else, the professor rallied to the salvation of mankind and assumed the role of the Expert. If he found in Jack Benny an odd bedfellow, the academic could clearly see his responsibility to compensate...
Both sides--government and rebel--claimed victories in rival propaganda broadcasts from stations 200-odd miles apart. There was no independent confirmation of any victory claims. Late tonight the government radio added a new twist--it began to ignore the revolt entirely...