Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page report. It covered the year's economy, segment by segment, with a chronology of events, earnings figures, significant developments in industry, etc. Researcher Stoddard also passed along a foot-high stack of pertinent reports on the year's business, selected from the 100-odd morgue folders she had gone through...
...born 30-odd years ago in the Spanish town of Albacete. He married young, went to Madrid and studied to be a schoolteacher. Too poor to finish his courses, he became a construction worker, unionist, extreme leftist. In the Civil War, he fought on the Ebro, had a big chunk shot out of his back. He went to Mexico, worked for the Spanish Republican exiles. After World War II, he slipped back into Spain, became a key Communist organizer...
...horse & buggy creaked along, the driver turned to the man in the odd little cape and asked: "You a traveling salesman?" The stranger nodded agreeably, but said nothing. The driver tried again: "What do you sell?" This time his passenger smiled. "Wit and wisdom" he said. After a shocked silence, the driver protested: "I've never seen a traveling salesman yet who wouldn't show me his wares...
Three or four nights a week, he has an odd, recurring dream. He is an athlete in a jampacked, outsized stadium. He takes off for an efficient, unspectacular broad jump. But he suddenly soars past the pit and over the heads of the officials, zooms right on over the stadium wall in a long, majestic arc, and wakes before he lands...
...incident. But last week they were beginning to wonder. In Winnipeg, "Mother City" of the Dominion's 350,000 Ukrainians, a man who ought to know charged that what had happened to Mike Moskal and his friends had happened to most, if not all, of the 6,700 odd D.P.s entering Canada since April...