Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Women who would never have dreamed of talking to a policeman are coming all the time." In the first 24 hours alone, more than 120 whores had volunteered information about the murder victims or about male customers of their acquaintance who seemed, in Scotland Yard's words, "odd or eccentric in their association with prostitutes." Said Commander Hatherill: "What has astonished me is the number of women in this profession who have been picked up, stripped in a car, then knocked about-and made no complaint...
...mileposts a day early. The former Secretary of State under Truman obligingly posed with a pair of cakes. "This is a great world in which to live so long," he said. And a young reporter asked what his outstanding experience had been. Byrnes smiled, thought back over his 40-odd years of public service and said simply: "Son, I hope you get to be 85 and somebody asks you that question...
...community know anything at all about the more than three miles of tunnels underneath them. A garrulous old bum who used to spend the nights around Leverett House told an undergraduate last year that he often slept inside the Weeks Bridge where "it's warm and quiet." It seems odd that a bum and a Nazi spy should be more familiar with the Tunnel than most undergraduates, especially since the existence of the underground passages is by no means a secret, and Harvard men--at least some of them--are inquisitive. Yet, it is somehow comforting to know that within...
Western and Russian envoys in odd alliance bullied and cajoled, but the coup leaders insisted on a new government more to their liking. Finally, the combined persuasion of the U.S., Russia, Great Britain, Canada, France, India and Australia paid off. Kouprasith announced that the junta would permit Souvanna to remain in office and that the coalition government would continue-though slightly enlarged and altered to meet the rightist demands for "greater stability." He did not explain just what alterations he had in mind. That decision having been reached, Kouprasith gulped a sleeping pill, and Siho went off to the Green...
Barr is less disturbed by his odd properties than by the fact that the Marlin bank failure illustrates what may be a trend. Most banks over the years since the Depression have gone under either because officers embezzled funds or showed poor judgment in making loans. But the four banks that have failed in the past 16 months had each been acquired by new management just before failure. Barr fears that unprincipled operators may be taking over small banks, paying themselves inflated salaries to recover acquisition costs, and then selling risky loan paper to their own banks. Barr aims...