Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Finland. As Soviet Ambassador to France in 1940, Surits was declared persona non grata for cabling home harsh criticism of "Anglo-French warmongers." Last week the U.S.S.R. had named him their first Ambassador to Brazil, where the Communists had rolled up an unexpected 600,000-odd votes in the recent elections...
...Odd things happen in fruit orchards from indiscriminate use of DDT. The woolly aphis is not bothered much by DDT, while the Aphelinus parasite, which normally discourages woolly aphis, is wiped out entirely. In orchards where the red spider has been kept under control by its enemies, "trees have been literally scarlet with red spiders after being sprayed with...
Such testimonials, which are valuable guideposts to those who nurse mental patients, are printed regularly in one of the nation's most curious publications: the Attendant, a monthly published by the 2,000-odd conscientious objectors who have been acting as mental-hospital attendants during...
...with some thoroughly objectionable . . . men who ran a mission to hop-pickers in the long vac. But you, my dear Charles . . . have gone straight hook, line and sinker, into the very worst set in the University. . . . There's that chap Sebastian Flyte you seem inseparable from. . . . [He] looks odd to me. ... Of course, they're an odd family...
...Just how odd they were Ryder was finding out for himself. Sebastian's father, Lord Marchmain, lived in Italy with an Italian mistress. His wife lived in Venice with a gentleman poet. ". . . Always drifting about the canals in a gondola with [him]," exclaimed Anthony Blanche, who was as "ageless as a lizard" and knew the family well "-such attitudes, my dear, like Madame Recamier; once, I passed them, and [the] gondolier . . . gave me such a wink. . . . She sucks [men's] blood. You can see the toothmarks all over Adrian's . . . shoulders when he is bathing...