Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five days a week, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith writes a syndicated over-the-back-fence news report for 40-odd papers on what she is doing down in Washington. Besides discussing her serious business, such as investigating ammunition shortages, she lets the folks in on odd bits of personal gossip, e.g., how capital busybodies have tried to match-make Widow Smith with Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, one of the capital's more eligible bachelors...
...well-drilled 1,300-odd deputies in the Supreme Soviet laughed mightily. The tone of future Soviet policy had been set: a strong, defiant, but not warlike attitude...
...odd men who wound up their visit at Brandeis last week came from Hollywood and San Francisco and from as far away as Denver and New York City. Among them: Radio Writer Norman Corwin, Manufacturer (Period Furniture Co.) Edward Meltzer, Papermaker (Hudson Pulp & Paper Co.) Joe Mazer, and David Tannenbaum, acting mayor of Beverly Hills...
...last few months, Horst Huett has made quite a business of answering odd questions: it is his way of scraping together enough money to put himself through a university. The well-read son of a refugee minister from Pomerania, he had always wanted to be a philologist, but his wages from the local pipemaking factory were far from enough. Then one night he heard a radio quiz program, found that he could answer all the questions...
...Iraq irrigation project, soon tired of it. "I said to myself: 'Ahmed, you are meant to be more than an engineer.' " In World War I, he set up a contracting business of his own, landed big contracts with the British army in Damascus, picked up other odd jobs in Beirut, Bagdad and Haifa. Back in Egypt after the war, Abboud decided to buck the foreign businessmen who then monopolized the nation's industry. Starting with two British companies which handled all the dredging of Egypt's irrigation canals, Abboud badgered government authorities until they gave...