Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comes to its own creature comforts. Last week Illinois' Paul Douglas gently belabored his colleagues with some unanswerable facts about their own housekeeping extravagance. Piled in the corridors of the old Senate Office Building, Douglas reported, are 375 desks, 215 steel filing cabinets, 400 chairs, many other odd pieces of old but usable furniture, all destined for the junk heap. Yet the Senators were ordering $113,000 worth of new equipment. And that $150,000 for new carpeting, requested for no better reason than the fact that Government girls might slip and fall on the tile flooring, struck plain...
Rodeo's Home. Second of three sons of a patient, pious couple of German-Lutheran descent. Lyman Lemnitzer was born Aug. 29, 1899, in Honesdale, Pa. (pop. 6,000). Thrifty father William worked up in 53 years at the local shoemaking plant from odd-job boy to vice-president, built a fortresslike house on the right bank of the Lackawaxen River (one small bridge later named after Lyman). Poorer kids ate butter, but the Lemnitzer boys got their bread dry or lard smeared. They dutifully did their chores (dishwashing, lawn mowing), earned their spending money at part-time jobs...
...Luftwaffe will need, only 650 are trained, and new pilots are qualifying at the rate of only ten per month. (To step up the process, 300 German pilots are being trained in the U.S. and 200 in Canada.) The navy is making do with one destroyer and 130-odd minesweepers, patrol boats and submarines...
...camera view finder and pressed the little button. A flashbulb's white glare froze a busy scene against the black of a tropic night on the Gulf of Panama, in the Pacific. Dame Margot's husband Roberto ("Tito") Arias-scion of one of Panama's 20-odd leading families and recently (1955-58) his nation's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-was happily at work transferring machine guns, pistols and other trappings of rebellion from an outboard-motor boat to a shrimp boat...
Another theory is that the Sputniks' Geiger tubes were blacked out near apogee by Van Allen radiation, and that the Russian scientists did not know how to interpret this odd behavior. The live dog carried in Sputnik II died in about a week, but the Russians have not told whether it was affected by radiation sickness. Very likely they do not know...