Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rothschild's wife Esther, who had been identified as a Communist in earlier testimony, was no more communicative. In 30-odd questions she admitted only that she was Rothschild's wife and had belonged to a parent-teachers' association...
...odd nations he had visited, Stevenson had conducted himself with a nonpartisan sense of responsibility, wisdom and tact. What had he been called on to explain most often? "McCarthyism," said Stevenson with no pause at all. He was cautiously optimistic about the state of the world. "We have been winning the cold war, step by step," he said. "In consequence, the danger of world war has diminished ... for the present." But the picture also had its dark side-which Democrat Stevenson by implication laid at the door of the Eisenhower Administration. Said he: "Just now, unhappily, [U.S.] prestige and moral...
...Jews. But the fate of the Ten Tribes is one of the persistent mysteries of history and a tempting lure for eager souls always waiting to rush into any vacuum of knowledge, armed with a ready-made theory and infinite capacity for inductive reasoning. In the past 100-odd years, a cult called British Israel, which estimates its membership in "hundreds of thousands," most of them in Britain, the U.S. and the Commonwealth, has developed a rather startling theory about the missing tribes...
...none of this was seen by the Poor Clares. Like their 12,000-odd sisters throughout the world, the 47 Poor Clares of Assisi spent these days in their cloister with no sight of the world but the sky above them, praying, working, singing and fasting, to be worthy of being what their founder liked to call herself: Brother Francis' Little Plant...
Died. Augustus Van Home Stuyvesant Jr., 83, Manhattan millionaire, sole surviving direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant (1592-1672), last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam; in his 20-odd-room Manhattan town house. Four days after his death, Stuyvesant was buried in the family crypt at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bouwerie, where 85 other Stuyvesants and Stuyvesant connections are entombed. Then the vault's massive bronze door (inscribed "Peter Stuyvesant-His Vault") was closed forever...