Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the tornado hit nearby Udall. Gart went into action. During the next 50-odd hours, he directed the activities of five of his reporters, contacted some 20 Kansas photographers for picturesand coordinated the storm coverage of two TIME staff correspondents, Don Connery of the Chicago Bureau on the ground, and Frank McCulloch overhead in a chartered plane from Dallas. Gart was still feeding copy to TIME in the small hours Saturday as a new storm lashed Wichita, hail rattled on the Eagle windows and the radio blared new tornado warnings...
Suddenly, Ike found himself in a covey of society reporters who wanted to know which dress he liked best. He easily ruled out Grace Coolidge's red velvet, low-waisted, high-hemmed style of the '20s. "A little odd," thought the President. Then, glancing to see that Mamie was out of earshot, he blurted, "I guess I like that one on Mrs. McKinley." Ida Saxton McKinley was indeed handsome in high-necked, ivory-hued satin with flowing train. Not pretty oldfashioned? asked a newshen. "Well, I guess so," Ike admitted, reluctant to be pinned down any more...
...five to $80 for four children), workers with families have gone into a different kind of income bracket from the young bachelors or the young marrieds. If the young workers in the factories want to strike for benefits today, they would have to go it alone. Thus in an odd manner the welfare state has blocked another path for genuine improvement of conditions...
Peron & Co. kept up the pressure. In the city of Eva Peron, police locked up 15 leading Catholic laymen, bringing to 60-odd the total jailed in various cities within a fortnight. Half a dozen priests were arrested, making a total of three dozen jailed since the conflict broke out last October. The Argentine Senate passed a bill to end the property-tax exemptions of churches, parochial schools and other denominational institutions. Both houses voted to abolish religious instruction in public schools. The Peronista legislators were unanimous, but the minuscule Radical Party minority in the Chamber (the Senate...
Among them was the Trimountain Club, which the nine defeated by the odd-sounding score of 59 to 32. In 1866, a year after Crimson baseball began organized competition, the squad met Eureka. The final score...