Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reign of the great sectional leaders of American politics did not pass with Calhoun, Webster and Clay. One of the most powerful in history died just last year: Robert A. Taft. The Republican parties of the twenty-odd states that make up the heartland of America followed him to the point of devotion. Because of this it was he, more than any other man, who stopped the New Deal dead in its tracks after the Second World War and begrudged the nation a bipartisan policy of world leadership...
...heavily state-subsidized opera pulled out all stops. Preparations started last November, rehearsals a month ago. For the final rehearsal week, all other performances were canceled. It was necessary: the opera has some 18 scenes, uses specially filmed movie footage (doves, clouds and scenes of violence) plus so-odd full-color still projections (including El Greco's Toledo and Bruegel's The Fall of Icarus'). The cast included a chorus of 100, 48 solo parts and some 150 extras (redskins, sailors, Mexican gods...
This is a year of firsts. Everest was climbed, then an Englishman ran a four minute mile. The odd Ibis-crowned building at the intersection of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets has been scaled innumerable times by men, but yesterday noon the first woman conqueror of the Lampoon Building, Adrienne L. deChetelat '46, posed for photographs in front of the well-traveled Ibis, which incidentally seems to be facing the CRIMSON Building again...
Posturing in a four thousand-pound setting of wood and stretched canvas, the 60-odd members of the Marco Millions cast will go through a final dress rehearsal tonight on the eve of the HDC's spring production opening in Sanders Theatre...
...Climb. After seven years, Ethel Andrus can claim credit for other accomplishments. Largely through the efforts of the N.R.T.A., California has raised its benefits from $60-odd a month to $170; Alabama's are up from $28 to $43; New York's from $90 to $176, and Indiana's are up a flat 10%. All in all, the national average has climbed slowly but steadily-from $885 a year...