Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naturally, the Mine Workers' representative was John L. Lewis. The Brotherhoods', by odd coincidence, was Thomas Cashen, an oldtime A.F. of L. man whose Switchmen's Union is still part of the A.F. of L. In effect John L. Lewis, for whom the A.F. of L. considers nothing too good right now, had five of labor's votes in his pocket...
Biarritz townspeople were at first resentful of the G.I. occupation of loo-odd of their famed hotels and villas, now invite students to dinner. The roulette wheels were stored away at the famed Casino, which became a hushed library supervised by a whispering ex-artilleryman. A prankish billeting officer quartered ten mild professors in what had once been the fanciest whorehouse in town. The professors were bothered almost nightly by old customers...
...Oregonians feared that they might have a scenic volcano on their hands. Said Professor Howel Williams, leading volcanologist : "Renewed activity is not out of the question." Crater Lake was formed some 10,000 years ago, when 12,000-ft. Mt. Mazama blew its top. The eruption covered 5,000-odd square miles of Oregon with pumice six inches deep. Incandescent avalanches fried the Klamath Plateau for 25 miles around the vent. Seventeen cubic miles of rock were blasted to smithereens...
...odd states, teachers' pay averages less than that of charwomen...
...odd mixture of tough talk and greeting-card sentiment, Fallen Angel includes a bogus clairvoyant (John Carradine), a church organist (Alice Faye) and a pair of underprivileged lovebirds (Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews). In the resulting tangle, everyone is left to act pretty much for himself. The lovebirds come out best. Dana Andrews is a fallen angel with a mouthful of romantic talk and an eye for the main chance. Linda Darnell is Stella, a sulkily beautiful hash slinger who is weary of driving men to madness rather than to matrimony...