Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until 1936, Albert Namatjira, a husky black member of the Arunta tribe in the remote bush country of central Australia, was a camel driver. He also did odd jobs for the Lutheran mission at tiny (pop. 242) Hermannsburg, 1,300 miles northwest of Sydney. The missionaries paid him in clothes and rations of European food, with which Albert supplemented the native "bush tucker" of kangaroo meat, honey ants and fat grubs...
...Odd Man Out. In Derby, England, Wilfred T. Ward was granted a divorce after he testified that his wife and daughter once climaxed a family quarrel by smashing the furniture with a 7-lb. sledge hammer, pinning Ward down while his son beat...
...election results will be announced in tomorrow's CRIMSON, after a group of 30-odd Student Councilors and House Committeemen have counted the ballots...
...there was an odd sort of comfort for the West in Malenkov's measured warning about the menace of nuclear war. It was the first concrete evidence that the men in the Kremlin, like those in the free world, recognize the suicidal implications of the H-bomb...
...such a flimsy plot, Lehmann drapes a super production involving 160-odd voices, 13 changes of scene, 94 stage hands, 37 electricians and some 100 supers. There is a showgirl chorus line, and eight special ballets. Flowery perfumes, concocted to match Weber's music, waft through the theater. In Act II there are no fewer than nine women suspended on nearly invisible wires above the staga ("They reminded me of airplanes waiting to land," said one reviewer...