Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite petty complaints that he was not putting aside enough time to meet citizens or plunge into politics along the way (an odd protest from a region where he is not politically popular), the vacationing President quite fittingly was seeing parts of America at its unspoiled best. All too soon, he would have to assume once again the burdens of office. Instead effacing the fleeting question of whether he would land the dancing trout he had just hooked, he would confront Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin across a conference table at Camp David and struggle with...
...Harvard Chronicle--Here we have a brand-spanking new paper, which published its first three issues last spring. It represents the libertarian political viewpoints. The four-to six-page issues have an amazingly odd range of material in them, mostly denouncing something or other as a threat to individual liberties and so on. Its future is unclear, but it's interesting to watch, even if the writing in it is something short of lucid...
...never stop moving aroung there'll be thngs that you miss, or will want to miss. There are, of course, several ways to cope with Freshman Week, and the patern you choose will depend on your attitude coming in and how quickly you can adjust to a rather odd situation...
...Peking regime seems to suffer from an odd credibility problem occasioned by the cleanup campaign. The People's Daily has complained that many Chinese think an attack on the Gang of Four is really a criticism of the infallible Mao himself. Not so, says the newspaper. An assault on the Gang of Four is really a blow to protect the thought of Mao. Still, the paper has admitted that many people are "trembling with fright" over the prospect that they may be attacked by radicals in the future for harboring a "wrong attitude toward Chairman...
...simple triangle, settled in the classic way? Perhaps. But there was one other odd fact. The day before John Tupper died, a model named Cheryl Corey, 20, went out on a date with her boyfriend, Scott Shepard. As they later stood on the balcony of his 17th floor apartment, four blocks from Jacobson's building, the railing gave way. The fall killed her and left him with two broken legs and internal injuries. What was odd was that Cheryl Corey worked for the My Fair Lady agency and until recently lived in the same apartment building as Melanie Cain...