Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...driven 250,000 people out of the city; it put like 25,000 small businessmen out of business, and the cost to the people of Boston, as I predicted, would be about two billion dollars, and the amount of money they got from the government 200 and some odd million dollars. And if they weren't getting today about 80 some odd million a year from the sales tax coming into Boston, your tax rate today would be about 150 to 160 dollars, which I predicted six years ago, that that's what it would...
...contrast, Humphrey's demonstration that he could do well without Eugene McCarthy's flower power threw the Minnesota Senator's future into serious doubt. The doubt grows even deeper if one considers his odd behavior during the campaign, during which he first refused to endorse Humphrey and then finally did so only grudgingly. Two weeks ago, he declared that "I will not be a candidate of my party for reelection to the Senate from the state of Minnesota in 1970. Nor will I seek the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in 1972." What would he seek...
Under any circumstances, this would seem a curious question for an Episcopal bishop to ask of his 22-year-old son. The circumstance under which it was actually asked was odd indeed. The scene was the home of a Santa Barbara spiritualist, the Rev. George Daisley, in the summer of 1967. The questioner was the Right Rev. James A. Pike, the resigned Bishop of California and a staff member of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. With Daisley's help as a medium, he was communicating with his son James Jr., who had killed himself the year...
Last week the temperature hovered around 60° at Great Gorge and the fall foliage still hung on the trees, but a hundred-odd young skiers turned up early to try the synthetic surface. They wedeled down the 1,200-ft. slope or slammed through the slalom course. A few even tried the 30-meter jump, which later this month will be used by Olympic hopefuls. Those that tumbled picked themselves up unhurt; Sno-Mat's pliable bristles had cushioned their falls. "Psychologically, Sno-Mat would be better if it were white," said Sven Evenesen, 17. "But I'm happy...
...these volumes, it is the nonpolitical pieces, diaries, letters and odd bits on diverse subjects that most hold the mind. Orwell was a classic Englishman, full of quirks. This shines through every line he wrote, whether on the puzzling sex life of the common toad who "salutes the coming of spring [and] after his long fast, has a very spiritual look, like a strict Anglo-Catholic towards the end of Lent," or on the "modern habit of some writers who describe lovemaking in detail. . .It is something that future generations will look back on as we do on things like...