Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strategic Air Command's 2,000-odd B-47 medium-jet bombers and hundreds of heavy 6-52 intercontinental jet bombers hold an overwhelming power margin over the U.S.S.R., reported the monthly Missiles and Rockets magazine last week. The proof, said M. and R., is that SAC aircraft are conducting "numerous and continuing" reconnaissance missions over the U.S.S.R., and the Russians have not been able to stop them. "It is true that modern Russian fighters attack our bombers with major advantages of altitude, speed and maneuverability. It is also true that they score hits. But so far no attacks...
...biggest cases of illegal immigration in its history. After a seven-month investigation federal authorities reported that Huey Bing Dai's clan had secretly and illegally moved most of the male inhabitants of an entire Chinese village to the U.S. over a period of 50-odd years. Like untold thousands of other Chinese in the U.S., the Hueys did it by playing a game as intricate and baffling as any Chinese puzzle ever devised: the slot racket...
...Lesson, a mad professor harangues and finally kills an odd, 17-year-old student (played as winningly by Joan Plowright as she plays the 94-year-old wife in The Chairs). The play perhaps symbolizes how pedantry destroys individuality, but like so much anti-academic satire, runs to academic jokes. Ionesco's seems an agreeable but thin talent, with a kind of philosophic-puppet show appeal...
...hunter publicly whaled. By this time Morel has allies. Somehow his gesture toward saving the elephants has attracted the world's attention. Like Albert Schweitzer, Morel has become a symbol for those discontented with the quality of modern existence. His allies, in the nature of things, are an odd lot. His personal Maquis, or tusk force, consists of a refugee girl, victim of multiple rape in the liberation of Berlin, a Danish naturalist, a U.S. magazine photographer, and a nuclear scientist who has just refused to go on helping to make the basalt bomb. Each...
...about three years out of four, the B.U. meet is an easy one for the varsity. This, however, appears to be the odd year, and coach Bill McCurdy has been priming his charges for some stiff competition from the Terriers...