Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dump Nixon harder than ever before. He proclaimed that 1) Nixon was "the principal architect of defeat" in 1958; 2) Nelson Rockefeller, suddenly alone among Stassen's four alternatives, was "the man the Republican Party should nominate in 1960 in order to win"; 3) Pennsylvania's 70-odd-vote delegation to the G.O.P. convention in 1960 should be led either by Senator-elect Hugh Scott or by Harold Edward Stassen. As for the President of the U.S., who had chatted politics longer with Stassen than with most, he stayed above the political battle, said nothing...
...people of Kukang, and all of Quemoy, now live-and die-by the calendar. On the odd days of the month, when Red shells pour thunderously in from the mainland, the people of Kukang stay holed in their shelters-grandmothers, babies, ducks and chickens squeezed tightly into dank caves, protected from the cold November winds only by tattered curtains of sacking. Their schools long since closed, children play in the caves with chunks of shrapnel. Night closes in early. By 6 p.m. the people have cleaned their bowls of rice, bean curd and cabbage and settled down on straw mats...
...from Formosa. Farmers swarm into the fields. But having learned to distrust the promises of Peking, they pack two days' work into the five morning hours, furiously irri gating, hoeing the weeds, planting winter crops. Some, like wizened Tun Men-tse, venture out before dawn even on the odd days, crouching in the dark to get in a couple of hours' labor. It is a gamble, but, says Tun, "we have...
Langlie reached for the reins last month when he made a personal assistant out of brash Stanley Frankel, 39, odd job and promotion man for Esquire and Coronet. Frankel promptly enraged the staff with a speech declaring that the editorial and advertising departments should cooperate more closely. When the astounded Wiese asked Langlie if he favored such a tie-in, the Governor said yes, added that Frankel was getting an office on the editorial side to keep an eye on things. With that, Wiese decided that it was time to quit, and the parade...
...Odd part of the matter: the New York publishing world-which is small to the point of claustrophobia-knew all about Lolita. It had been published (in English) by Paris' Olympia Press, had been reviewed in the U.S. (TIME, March 18, 1957), but had not found a U.S. firm willing to take a chance on it. But Bookman Minton says he was not aware of Lolita until Reader Ridgewell brought it to his attention. Said Rosemary, happily swizzling a vodka on the rocks: "I thought Nabokov had a very interesting way of writing, very, you know-crystalline...