Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Give-Away Smile. When a child is questioned at a counseling session, says Dr. Dreikurs, it is easy to tell the moment when his inner purpose is revealed to the youngster. There comes an odd, sudden smile or some other distinctive facial expression, often so dramatic that newcomers to the parent group can spot it. It is remarkable, too, how young a child can give the needed responses to questioning...
...such, he became the best known in the U.S. to newsmen, and his Manhattan firm of Steve Hannagan Associates made millions getting the public better acquainted with such clients as Miami Beach, the Union Pacific Railroad, Coca-Cola, Owens-Illinois Glass, the Indianapolis Speedway and 30-odd others. It was Steve Hannagan-a pressagent with an unabashed circus flair-who made the bathing girl a stock shot for the American press, and who persuaded newspaper readers that Prizefighter Gene Tunney was really a Shakespearean scholar...
...Strange Woman, Leave Her to Heaven); of a heart attack while playing in a curling match; in Brookline, Mass. Husky, Mississippi-born Ben Williams sweated out 83 short stories at night during his Boston newspaper days before making a sale, thereafter sold some 500. Longest of his 30-odd full-blown novels was 1947's House Divided, a 1,514-page meticulously documented account of the South and the Civil War; a sequel, The Unconquered, is scheduled for publication this summer...
...tested an atomic weapon device. Said the committee: "Never in the history of intelligence has such clear-cut evidence been examined so exhaustively, so often to arrive at the same simple and unavoidable conclusion." It was possible that Truman was right and everybody else wrong. Even so, it was odd that he had waited until he left the White House before exhibiting his doubts on a conclusion for which he was officially responsible...
...sled went, runners chattering at the whistling 60 m.p.h. clip. Gathered at the turn, 500-odd spectators - Mrs. Endrich among them-watched breathlessly for the precise change in course that would send the bobsled whipping down the sheer far side of the turn. The change was never made. The sled shot up and over the rim of the curve, and crashed heavily into a clump of firs...