Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fence to build ten, eleven or twelve miles high." He has, however, a growing supply of fence-including stakes and spikes:¶ More than 100 radar warning stations staffed by 10,000 airmen. ¶ Some 13,000 ground-observer posts manned by 370,000 civilian volunteers. ¶ Fifty-odd fighter squadrons equipped with more than 1,200 jet interceptors in the 600-m.p.h. class...
Goose & Carrot. Life on America's radar line-the loo-odd Aircraft Control and Warning stations-is an unsettling mixture of utter monotony and utmost intensity. Although every operator knows that the next blip on his radarscope could be the herald of death, staring steadily into the electronic eye can be endlessly boring. Radar sites are usually remote and lonely. Permanent stations, costing $5,000,000 each to build and $500,000 yearly to run, are surprisingly elaborate. Example: "Mother Goose," a warning site about 65 miles east of Albuquerque, N. Mex., is set up to protect...
Last month, while Dr. Gallup was on vacation, his staff at Princeton, N.J. drew up an odd lot of questions designed to give some kind of picture of Homo americanus. Some results...
...first four days, Mrs. Emery's Voice of Audubon had about 500 calls a day. Inevitably, a few odd specimens got on the tape, such as "a pink duck with blue stripes," "a Saltonstall pretending to be a senator," and "two lame ducks on Tremont Street...
...pharmacist's son, Thon was born 48 years ago in Manhattan. He left school at the end of the eighth grade, lived by a variety of odd jobs while teaching himself to paint. Success came very slowly, and Thon's star did not really rise until after his World War II stint on a subchaser and his sojourn in Italy...