Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon then asked an odd question...
...course, Bentinck-Smith had some good men working for him: Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Santayan, Charles Dickens, J. P. Marquand, and Cleveland Amory, to name just a few of the eighty odd. The editor's brief introductory notes place each contribution in its proper historical setting...
Outside of the odd little men who put some sort of orange grease on their naked chests and war-danced in front of the stands, the only other outstanding Indian was fullback Dick Jennison. The Green's top ground gainer in 1951 who was ineligible last year, Jennison hits the line like a medium-sized bulldozer, forcing his own openings, and carrying Holy Cross defenders with...
...Fearers. Except for such bizarre details, the Pictish way of life foreshadowed that of the Shetlanders today. They raised grain, caught fish and seals and gathered seabirds and their eggs. But they must have had some odd ideas, perhaps a part of their religion. A medieval chronicler, says Digger Hamilton, describes them as "Picts who did marvels in the morning and the evening, in building walled towns, but at midday they entirely lost their strength and lurked, through, fear, in little underground houses...
Though only seminarians were so far affected, the 90-odd practicing prêtres-ouvriers in France could see the writing on the wall. A compelling reason for the change in policy was probably the need to conserve France's supply of young priests, which has been dwindling. According to Cardinal Liénart of Lille, the Seminary of Lille had an average of 53 students a year between 1930 and 1949 but has only 32 today; the Seminary of Carcassonne had 112 students in 1900 and has only 34 now; two other French seminaries recently shut down entirely...