Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chamber of Deputies over a negligible item in the budget-the provision of $238,000 in aid to private schools, which are mostly Roman Catholic. The Socialists, led by Veteran Pietro Nenni and, as always, anticlerical, abstained. But this time they were joined in their abstention by an odd lot of Communists, Liberals, Monarchists and Neo-Fascists. Even worse for Moro, at least ten of his own Christian Democratic Deputies left the chamber before the roll call. As a result, the government fell four short of a majority...
...Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John D., childless widow of Munitions Heir Marcellus Hartley Dodge, and in doughtier days she played hostess to the world's largest one-day dog show (4,456 entries in 1939) at her 500-acre estate in Madison, N.J. Today, she mothers 40-odd pedigreed German shepherds, retrievers, bloodhounds, beagles and a poodle, and kennel costs-nothing but prime cuts will do-ran to $50,000 in 1963. Her guardians want to put the mutts on soup bones, but a Manhattan judge ruled let them eat steak. Mrs. Dodge, said he, has so many...
...many ways, despite other Senators' heavy involvements, it is Dirksen's bill, bearing his handiwork more than anyone else's. Dirksen's 70-odd amendments are less notable for their number than for their thrust. In essence, he has changed the bill so as to allow the states more leeway in controlling their own civil rights conflicts, and to bar possibly overzealous federal officials?such as an Attorney General?from charging in and initiating civil rights suits without first establishing a "pattern" of discrimination. On both sides of the Senate aisle, almost everyone agrees that Dirksen's proposed amendments vastly...
...through the crowds, a condemned murderer broken on the wheel, thieves stealing food with a pole through an open window, medical students digging up cadavers in deserted graveyards, little girls and boys sold into prostitution-Restif saw them all. And he set them down as he saw them, in odd, choppy verbal snapshots, some grotesque, a few funny, but all in appalling contrast to the occasional fine lady or powdered gentleman whose carriage splatters them with mud or casually kills someone...
Proliferation. Though Europe's 50-odd automakers are not quite ready to embrace Detroit's concept of planned obsolescence, the shapes and sizes of European cars are proliferating. France's Panhard turns out nine mod els, Citroen eight; in West Germany, Ford offers 27 models, G.M.-owned...