Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...droll British legpull, poses a profound question: Can a comfortably married man - in this case, a slightly stuffy peer with a fine future in the Foreign Office - pull the sheets over his wife's eyes by carrying on with a string of mistresses, and live happily for 30-odd years in his two worlds? Answer: rather...
...Third Seawolf in U.S. submarine history. The first was lost at sea in 1920. The second torpedoed 18-odd Japanese ships during World War II, but was lost off the Admiralty Islands in 1944-probably, according to a later inquiry, depth-charged in error by the U.S. destroyer Rowell...
...interregional alliance for "mutual security" among the 30-odd countries of East and West Europe to replace the present NATO, with U.S. forces barred from Europe and the U.S.S.R. in control...
...considerably past the taw line. Carmine De Sapio will lead-and control-the New York delegation to the 1956 national convention, and he is not a man to waste his time on token political gestures. New York's political sons (by reason of the state's 90-odd delegate votes and financial resources) have a habit of becoming serious contenders in presidential nominating politics...
...Group from the U.S., organized nine years ago by Oil Heir William H. Scheide, a onetime music teacher at Cornell University. Bach Specialist Scheide, who has long maintained that the cantatas are the heart of Bach's work, figured out that about half of the cantatas' 650-odd arias could be performed by combinations of five instruments and four voices. To prove it, he assembled the aria group, made the discovery, to everyone's surprise that Bach vocal music was a tonic to the U.S. concert box office...