Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder just how many airmen serve as guiding lights for Russia's 300-odd submarines? Our submarine service, like our Marine Corps, is a small, elite corps of specialists who deserve the very best in equipment and leadership that can be given them, and in leadership I include the right to be led by men who have been trained and served in their particular branch of the service...
...bits & pieces that go into making a week's story of a presidential vacation are harvested at odd moments and places during a long day. "Incidentally" says Darby, "it's now next to a duty to learn to play golf. One of our colleagues does not play, and he has appointed me his copyreader on all golf stories. He asked me to do the chore after he got into print with a sentence saying that the President had teed up for a drive from the green...
...cardinal, never regarded as a supporter of the opposition, has said nothing, and the affair had an odd sequel last week when he confirmed President Batista's eldest son. Perhaps it remained only for the President to take his choice of two morals: 1) if the story was true, censorship evidently did not keep Cubans from learning about it; 2) if the story was false, censorship obviously led many Cubans to believe...
...churches and some 15 "parent bodies." Last week at the Shoreham Hotel, the bright-eyed priests and priestesses of spiritualism wound up five days of speeches, seances and healing sessions, during which they compared notes on materializations and levitations, automatic writings and unfriendly state laws. For relaxation, the 200-odd delegates took in sightseeing tours and a weekend dinner-dance or rested their corporeal manifestations in the lobby and read "How It Feels to Die-by One Who Has!" in the latest Psychic Observer, or writings with a message, such as I Rode a Flying Saucer-the Mystery...
...superior court, he was recommended for the antitrust job by Vice President Nixon. On his new job Barnes works a twelve-hour day, has already visited nine of the division's ten regional offices. Though he intends to enforce existing laws, he believes that the 30-odd antitrust statutes (dating from 1890) may need adjusting to 1953 economic facts. To examine that question, Barnes last week appointed a 57-man committee of eminent lawyers, professors, economists and Government officials. Cochairmen: Trustbuster Barnes and Michigan Law Professor S. (for Saul) Chesterfield Oppenheim, who does not believe that bigness is necessarily...