Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been deafened a little by the last big bang of World War II, was beginning to listen to lesser sounds. By now the U.S. had become matter-of-fact about peace: the new civilian clothes on veterans had lost that store press, the words "President Truman" no longer sounded odd, and Rosie the Riveter seemed almost as dated as the Gibson Girl...
Inside the old white doorway the house had been arranged the way F.D.R. had left it for the last time. The clocks were stopped. His clothes, including the navy cape he wore at Yalta, still hung in the closet; his hat & coat were still by the hall door. Odd paraphernalia-bird collections, pictures, a cribbage board-were in their accustomed places. On the table near the mahogany bed in his old room were scattered mysteries and year-old newspapers and magazines.* In his library with the lived-in look were the maps on which he had followed the war-which...
...Irishmen were in charge, and between them and the other delegates they made it a real wake. Among the 35 nations whose 300-odd representatives gathered last week in the huge, empty Palace at Geneva to bury the League of Nations, there were sentimental oldtimers keening over the past...
...encyclopedia on potential invasion areas, written by 400 professors and assorted experts. Says McGovern: "It was right hard to get those highbrows to part with their beloved footnotes." Even abridged, the average volume was still too long to please King, Leahy or Marshall. On learning that it was 900-odd pages, they would shudder: "Oh my God! Boil it down to three or four...
...fairy-taleish, often brilliant prose-they were fascinating and had a kind of queer vitality, but were not much like anything on earth. Delta Wedding, which is Author Welty's first novel, is likely to provoke in readers the same old mixture of puzzlement over the odd people in it and respect for the sensitive, nimble hand that pulls the strings. Every page is filled with a sensitivity and workmanship that raise it far above the level of most novels; but also into an atmosphere that most readers may find too rare to breathe...