Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pair of boots and/or shoes will be laced diagonally and worn on the odd numbered days of the month...
...There will be another crisis in the glorious military history of the Antilles Department when the General and his aides discover that the 31st of January and the 1st of February, both odd days, come consecutively...
...form a Fifth International, they claimed: at most they would revive the moribund Second International. They charged Nenni with trying to deliver Socialism to the Communist ogre. When reminded that in London Nenni had spoken out against a merger with the Communists, they snapped: "That was on an odd day of the month. On even days he's for [it]." Declared a like-minded right-wing socialist in New York: "This mountain will give birth to a little left-wing mouse...
...then in 1944 Baptist Torrey Johnson (pastor of Chicago's Midwest Bible Church) organized "Chicagoland" for Christ, quickly took over as a national leader. Today Y.F.C.'s rough estimates-there are no others-put the movement's strength at 300 "units" in the U.S., 200-odd more overseas. Average attendance at rallies: 350. Biggest Y.F.C. mobilization: 70,000 men, women and adolescents at Chicago's Soldier Field last Memorial...
Besides being shown at the museum until mid-July, some of the films will be distributed to 350-odd organizations throughout the U.S.: colleges, Parent-Teacher Associations, clubs, even prisons. The museum program does not include every documentary of first-rate interest. (Notable omissions: all newsreels since 1931; issues of MARCH OF TIME since 1940.) But cinemaddicts who still doubt that the documentary is growing up might do well to paste the following titles in their hats, and to see them-in parish house, college, jail, or Manhattan-if opportunity offers...