Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, raven-haired girl with Irish blue eyes . . . as brave and dangerous as a tigress and was completely devoted to the British company . . ."). He felt lost when peace came. "I always expected to be killed in battle," he said. "Now I was left stranded, spared by some odd trick of fate...
Troubleshooter. Trainer Ben Jones, whose business for 40-odd years has been to know good jockeys, and who has watched .the best of them, says that Eddie Arcaro is the best he has seen since Carroll Shilling. Why? B.A. doesn't rightly know: "It's like playing a piano. Some have a better touch than others...
...Testament run to 100 pages. It was assembled by a staff of 40 during weekends, parties, and other odd moments when the editors could get together and thrash out ideas...
Arabesque is mainly a pleasantly concocted adventure story. A bilingual beauty named Armande Herne, stranded in Beirut in 1941, piques the curiosity of both French and British Intelligence. Odd though it seems, she is neither a poule de luxe nor a Nazi agent-just a lonely woman. No sooner have the security police made certain of this than they succeed in putting ideas in her pretty head: she should use her charm to strike a blow for Britain...
Following an address to 70-odd members of the Young Republican Club, the Massachusetts Senator and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee estimated that it would take that long to from out Senate-House disagreements on the measure...