Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chicago did the most flying (165,000 miles), more than any other U.S. or foreign bureau. Says Bob Schulman: "The general theme of the Chicago bureau's relationships with the airlines is one of odd-hour flights, mad dashes and coverage of massive areas to get the regional understanding so necessary for TIME reporting...
...Every country that has been rehabilitated-Japan with its 80-odd million, India, the Mediterranean, the Baltic, European countries-is increasing its production with facilities acquired by the help of our Government. What is going to become of those goods? [Those countries could not absorb their increased production], so they are going to sell in the world markets at any price that will move those goods . . . That means that American goods will be frozen out of those markets, just as they are being frozen out in South America...
...prosperous 18th century physician who developed a passion for collecting, scurried over the world like a pack rat, assembling books, manuscripts, Roman, Egyptian and Asiatic antiquities, coins, medals and works of art. Sloane's friends (among them: Isaac Newton, Samuel Pepys, Christopher Wren, Alexander Pope) sent him odd things from everywhere. One friend, Poet Thomas Hearne, versified that he had collected for the good doctor...
...simple story of family life in England is just what her fans might have ordered. As far from the Goudge world as possible is the African world of First Novelist Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Grove), a world of myth, legend and fantasy. The language is odd and flavorsome, as befits a book whose hero drinks 225 kegs of palm wine every...
...neighborhood hoodlums, stole pennies from newsstands, quarters from a shop where he briefly worked, ladies' handbags in a planned robbery. While older brother Simon, out to get rich, was learning to knot a bow tie and be charming to ladies, Augie was working the angles at some very odd jobs (coifing dogs, stealing books, smuggling immigrants over the Canadian border) and wondering what life was all about...