Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken four months of prodigious labor by bald, burly Commodore William Aloysius Sullivan, the Navy's chief of salvage, and the thousand-odd officers & men of his Manila-Subic Harbor Clearance Group. In clearing approach channels, the slips and the Pasig River (where wrecks lay three deep in spots) they had fished up more than 400 Jap craft, large & small. A few they had beached for salvage; many they had refloated with big air bubbles pumped into the holds, to be hauled away bottoms-up and sunk again...
...which Admiral Mitscher transferred his flag after the Bunker Hill was hit. The destroyer Mohan was announced sunk, the cruiser Nashville and two more destroyers damaged in December. Two ships were admittedly hit in March, seven in April, four in May, one in June. Presumably others among the 80-odd ships hit during the Okinawa battle were victims of suicide pilots. Radio Tokyo says all Jap pilots now are suicidal...
...apathetic an electorate drifted so listlessly toward so momentous an election. Seldom had a rowdedow campaign ended in such eleventh-hour fireworks. Seldom had a result been so hard to predict (best guess as polling began: a small majority for the Conservatives; for Labor a gain of 100-odd seats...
Paul Whiteman set the pace with his 1,500th-odd playing of the Rhapsody. All four major networks agreed to stick in Gershwin tunes on almost every musical show that comes along. Among others, Todd Duncan (the original "Porgy") and every songstress from Lily Pons to Dinah Shore will give out with Gershwin in July. The climax will be a big outdoor concert, starring Oscar Levant, at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium on July 12. That will be exactly eight years and a day after Gershwin's death-a rather odd-figure anniversary until one considers that it coincides...
...Catherine I in her own right, has rated only one biography, written in the 18th Century. Author Stong, with the same racy narrative power that made his State Fair one of the most likable novels of more than a decade ago and has since earned for his two dozen-odd novels and children's tales a legion of readers, has set himself to revive her reputation. His Russia is hazy, gory, barbaric and lecherous. Against it, Stong's Marta stands forth commonsensical, sturdy, ruddy, self-reliant as an Iowa housewife...