Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...develops, it becomes clear that the absent Benny is a five-star heel, whose only possible usefulness to the community is martial. This fact and the picture itself suddenly become interesting when a wire informs the small-town bigwigs that they had bred a hero: Benny has killed 100-odd Japanese, died in the act, and posthumously been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...machine-tool manufacturers could deliver the some $40 million of new machinery needed to get back to the manufacture of 1942 models; 4) hundreds of subcontractors, each with baffling reconversion problems of their own, could start the endless flow of wheels, tires, textiles, special metals, the other 10,000-odd parts needed to put an automobile together...
...days later G&246ring met the Allied press. Fifty-odd newsmen (and some visiting Mexican generals) saw him seated under a pepper tree in Augsburg, fidgeting with a pair of sky-blue gloves. The sun was hot; so were some of the questions. G&246ring sweated, constantly mopped his brow with a rumpled handkerchief. But he lost his composure only once, when a correspondent asked: "What about the Reichsmarshal's statement that if 'the Allies ever bombed Berlin, 'my name is Meyer'?" G&246ring reddened, mopped, fell silent...
Time & again Huston led his men into no man's land hours ahead of an attack (once they were caught for hours in cross fire) ; constantly, he caromed from man to man of his small crew, guiding them to the best positions, the best shots. Day & night at odd moments during the fighting, Huston shaped and reshaped his scenario, and wrote his narration...
...would be some city park that had beaver, chipmunks, and deer on the loose (like Brookfield, near Chicago, maybe). But, as it happens, Toronto's Algonquin Park (TIME, April 16) is about 180-odd miles from Toronto and has, in addition to the above-mentioned fauna, bear, mink, moose, and wolves (researchers beware). It is, in fact, Algonquin Provincial Park, with a post office and all, some 1,500 lakes, covering, I would guess, about 3,000 sq. mi. of "picnic grounds," mostly second-growth coniferous stand, with some virgin timber in the north...