Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worst single disaster struck Stroudsburg, Pa., in the Pocono Mountains, where the usually gentle Brodhead Creek rose 30 terrifying feet in 15 minutes, left more than 50 dead. At Camp Davis, a religious retreat, 31 of 40-odd campers, nearly all of them women and children, were dead or missing. Mrs. Jennie Johnson, a survivor, described...
...HAPPENING? The answer: Dela plane had touched off a craze for Irish coffee. In San Francisco's Buena Vista bar alone, consumption of Irish whisky leaped from two cases a year to 1,000 cases, an average of 700 Irish coffees a day. Visitors from some 40-odd cities where Delaplane's column runs turned up in droves to sample the magic dew. The consumption of Irish coffee has become so great that exports of Irish whisky to the U.S. increased 40% last year, to 10,000 cases. In Manhattan, bistros from Pat Moriarty's Chop House...
...massive new walls (proof against radioactive contamination) are 656,000 bottled specimens of human tissue bearing the imprint of one or another of a thousand diseases, not to mention 6,332,508 slides containing tissue slices or body fluids for the diagnostic microscope. Among the institute's odd relics: a lock of Lincoln's hair and a sliver of bone from his skull; the leg lost by General Dan Sickles at the end of the battle at Gettysburg; parts of the brains of Mussolini and Nazi Boss Robert...
...contemporaries, did much better financially than American abstractionists do today. In 1858, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad dispatched Asher Durand and some of his colleagues in an excursion train, which stopped when any of the artists expressed a desire to sketch the view from the windows. The 600-odd canvases in John Kensett's studio brought $137,715 at auction after his death...
Three days before the big picnic, the well-fed technocrats of Communism filed into the Assembly Hall of the Great Palace of the Kremlin for another of their little practice sessions in the simulation of democracy. The 1,300-odd Communist Party Deputies were gathered in special session to hear goateed Premier Bulganin read a 10,000-word report on the summit conference at Geneva, to cheer at the right places, to follow it with a day's "debate" in which everyone would cheer or deplore what Bulganin cheered or deplored, after which everyone would vote...