Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center's gospel, laid down by Founder De Lee, is absolute cleanliness in the midst of squalor. As a sanitary aid, the delivery crews pack two odd accessories: newspapers and empty beer bottles. With the bottles as stiffeners, newspapers are rolled into bolsters to shield the mother from outside germs. Explains the center's Co-Director Dr. Harry B. Benaron: "We don't say that newspapers are germfree, but they are certainly cleaner than the sheets we find in the average home...
Indo-China has a thousand-odd churches, some of them converted Buddhist temples (see cut). It is divided into 18 vicariates with about 1,400 native priests and 18 bishops (eight of them Indo-Chinese). Among them are Msgr. Pham Ngoc Chi, Bishop of Bui Chu and Msgr. Thaddeus Le Huu Tu, Bishop of Phat Diem. Msgr. Tu is the only Roman Catholic bishop in the world (besides the Pope, with his 100-odd Swiss Guards) to maintain his own private army-two regular battalions of 1,700 men, plus a militia of 5,800. (The two bishops and thousands...
...mannerisms, the soulful eye-woggling and love-me-please pout. He is the military aristocrat to the last shoe button, going a fair piece down Swann's Way with no illusions-an intelligent, very French, clearly self-knowing performance. As the countess, Darrieux nicely achieves an odd mix of innocence, flirtiness, and neurasthenia, but cannot quite hold her own with the competition...
Three weeks ago, as the 4,000-odd policemen assigned to track him down were combing the wild hills in a desperate last attempt to bring him to justice, Man Singh's men made a swift raid on a village and shot dead the Brahman priest's only surviving relative. At last the dacoit had fulfilled his vow to Kali...
...were spent writing special material for nightclub acts and TV shows (e.g., Stop the Music}. The first glimmer of bigger success came when Songwriter Frank (Guys and Dolls}) Loesser decided they were a promising team, and signed them up for his new publishing house. Among their 150-odd songs: last winter's hit, Rags to Riches, seven numbers for John Murray Anderson's Almanac...