Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always irritates me to have Americans forever criticizing the English for their speech and voices. Seems a bit odd, when they have always had the language while we have used it and abused it for a comparatively short time. If ever a country displayed ugly speech and voices we certainly...
...odd season-too warm to be winter, too early to be spring-was immensely cheering even to insulated city folk. If nature thought well enough of prospects for 1953 to distribute an early bonus, there didn't seem to be much reason not to hang up the automobile chains, get out the seed catalogue, and anticipate that illusion of well-being which modern man derives from an early coat of sunburn...
...Odd Impulse. A fortnight ago, with 224 other men of Company L, 39th Infantry, Edgar was in one of a series of final training exercises: an attack, with live ammunition, on a line of dummies "defending" a hill. Rifles banged. Artillery shells moaned overhead and exploded in "enemy" territory. Amid the excitement Edgar had an odd impulse. He aimed his M1 rifle at the back of 2nd Lieut. Richard Davenport, 22, the officer commanding his platoon. Then he pulled the trigger. The officer toppled over dead with a bullet through his heart...
...odd youngsters seemed to like it all very much. But the life or death of a new children's opera depends pretty much on capricious oldsters. Babar seems to stand a better chance than most : the Little Orchestra plans to do a repeat performance in Newark, N.J. this week, and radio & TV folks are interested...
...patents, and 3) sell its $4,500,000 supply business (nails, tacks, eyelets, grommets). But he refused to make United split up into three competing companies and stop leasing its machinery, as the Justice Department had asked. Too many of the U.S.'s 1,300-odd shoe manufacturers cannot afford to buy the machines, he said, and might be forced out of business if they could not lease them...