Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it was over, an odd jubilance seemed to possess the dissolving crowds, as though they had seen some greatness in themselves mirrored out in the street. At the reviewing stand Slim Jim Gavin, relaxing at last, touched thumb and forefinger lightly into a circle to tell what he thought of the men who had marched behind...
Each week 4,000-odd letters like these pour into the office of plain-speaking Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of the National Radio Pulpit. Rated by volume of fan mail. Methodist Sockman of Park Avenue's swank Christ Church is No. 1 Protestant radio pastor of the U.S.* Since good, grey, Congregationalist S. Parkes Cadman pioneered the field in 1923, radio religion has become a national institution, is preached to an estimated congregation of ten million...
Assuming that practically no one works alone, the examiners tried to uncover each candidate's character and capabilities as a member of a group. Some of the techniques for this odd vocational guidance experiment were borrowed from the British War Office Selection Board; others were developed on the spot...
Major Needles made a survey of 200 NP cases. They were all seasoned field soldiers with records of serious emotional instability. All had been in a tough, 60-day stretch of fighting before they finally broke down with battle jitters. Hospitalization let some odd cats out of the. psychic bags: ¶ A private, a rifle company runner, was a Doubting Thomas. He doubted himself, his friends, his own judgment and abilities. Eventually he stopped caring what happened to him, and acted with exceptional bravery because he began to look on death as a pretty comfortable state...
...General in the West. When he bumped into Honor at the Cavalier headquarters he said, rather tactlessly: "I had not thought to find you so damnably unchanged." Then he asked: "Have you not your own apartment?" Said Honor with "some small attempt at dignity": "It would be considered somewhat odd if we retired there...