Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unquestionably the best, the most rewarding, and the most intricate sport around, as any one of the 70-odd members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club will testify...
Almost two decades of Harvard Freshmen have learned to hate the buildings erected at Cambridge St. and Broadway. Since 1934, no man's sleep has been safe, as the doughty firemen race out to one of the 1,000 odd alarms that the Central fire House answers yearly...
...homestretch of the campaign, Ike is in top form, with a new self-assurance and gusto. The 200-odd speeches, the 40,000 miles by train, plane and car, the motorcades in the chill wind, the 2 a.m. platform appearances seem to have left no mark on him. His voice is only slightly hoarse (he yelled lustily at the Army-Columbia football game). His enthusiasm for talking to people and exchanging views with them seems to grow. He has coined no great phrases, although some Ike sentences pack a weighty punch. Samples...
...fact, to judge from Sironia, Texas in those days must have been a dang sight wilder than even now. In the lives of Cooper's 30-odd major characters, there occur a flood, several murders and suicides, and a castration party. One whorehouse burns down, one Negro is burned alive, one changeling is introduced into a childbed...
...tentlike sweaters go, the dressmaker sweaters make their appearance. Sweaters have little scalloped collars, odd sleeves, and fancy embroidery. Since they are now de rigeur for evening wear, some of the most luxurious cashmeres come embroidered with pearls and bugle beads, or trimmed with mink at the neck and cuffs. The classic cashmere, often of purest white, is worn with a jumbled treasure-house of beads, necklaces, and pearls again, or with a fantastic pseudo-Renaissance choker or a vast bib of phoney gems...