Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suspect that for my luxury, some $10,000 are spent (a wild guess based on 30 rooms each with 30-odd chairs, at $10 a chair) at a time when even those of us who don't know much about what goes on in the outside world have some inkling that affairs are not at their normal smoothness, and education in particular is not rolling in gold. We are warned by college presidents that if the tax payer doesn't help, private educational institutions will go down. We receive heart-rending pleas for money from conscientious people who want...
...strange and pathetic. Denfeld learned he had been fired only when Vice Admiral John Dale Price (who had gotten the news from a reporter) burst into his office and blurted: "Admiral, the President has just relieved you as Chief of Naval Operations." Denfeld looked up incredulously, said, in an odd voice, "Is that so?" and lapsed into stunned silence. Later he wept. Also he became a hero to the service...
...Germans had treated the tiny Loire village of Maillé; because they suspected the villagers of hiding an English pilot, the Nazis had killed 124 men, women & children, then razed half of the dwellings. The Hales decided to "adopt" the village, spent more than $25,000 providing their 500-odd wards with shoes, soap, tractors, china, blankets, furniture, altar carpets and scarves for the church and 40 yards of black funeral cloth...
...Odd Appointments...
...that the goal has been reached, however, these funds are available for other purposes. Special fees for out-of-hours visits can be eliminated, in spite of the claim that this would encourage students to come for medical care at odd hours. The Hygiene Department can also consider renewing its Ophthalmological Clinic, a wartime casualty that has done excellent work in the past. With such action, the Hygiene Department can greatly improve its relations with students and maybe some of them will stop wondering where their $15 goes...