Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mitsukoshi depato (department store) which had boasted an American-style drugstore and a soda fountain featuring banana splits, now offered an odd assortment of unwanted goods-violin bows, pottery goldfish, bronze sparrows, unstrung tennis rackets and women's hats...
...fortunately south and west of Pearl Harbor-were the U.S.'s only combat-fit carriers in the Pacific, the Lexington and the Enterprise, with a combined complement of only 180-odd planes. Like sitting ducks in Pearl Harbor were eight of the battleships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, in a condition of only partial readiness. This the Japs knew; they were well supplied with every detail of intelligence about their target...
...million-odd citizens of agricultural Paraguay have taken great pride in their Army. Trained by a French mission, it had thrashed Bolivia (pop. about 3,000,000) in the bloody three-year Chaco war beginning in 1932 had come home to barracks a triumphant fighting force. But by this week some Paraguayans were taking a different view of their soldiers: they were eating the country out of house & home...
There were so many reporters (300-odd) scrambling around the battleship Missouri in Tokyo harbor last week that they spilled over their assigned space on the ship's deck. Dozens of the U.S. newsmen were looking for Joe Blow, the local boy who made good. Aboard one destroyer transport, the squawk box ordered all New York men to double to the fo'c'sle to meet the New York Times's representative. He turned out to be the Times's general manager himself, Brigadier General Julius Ochs Adler. Lesser reporters, many with the names...
Ranging in age from twelve to 17, the 7,000-odd Germans in this unusual P.O.W. camp were segregated from older prisoners last spring. Major William A. MacGrath, then commandant of the camp, saw it as an opportunity. While higher-ranking minds bumbled over plans to re-educate the enemy, he began an experiment in deNazification...