Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raise 70% of the cost from big insurance lenders, the rest in equity capital. Ryan, who is planning to deliver gasoline from Beaumont to Newark for a cost of 29? per barrel v. an average of 38? by tanker, expects no trouble in lining up customers from the 50-odd U.S. oil companies with refineries in the Beaumont-Shreveport, La. area...
...concepts of America? Seldom have I been more infuriated by a report of a foreign attitude toward our country than I was by the French expectancy of unlimited financial support from us-and seldom more soothed than by Father Bruckberger's evaluation of our being and spirit. This odd little balancing effect within the covers of one magazine gave it (the magazine) almost the quality of a work of art. So did it razzle and subsequently spread balm on the emotions...
Just before 8 o'clock one morning last week, Ike Eisenhower drove up to a sleek DC-6B at Denver's Stapleton Airport, to embark on his long-promised big drive for the presidency. At Ike's insistence ("This is one thing I'm odd about"), the 20 members of his staff and 30 newsmen climbed aboard the plane first.* Then Ike swung through the door and the "Eisenhower Special" was off to Boise, Idaho...
...fortnight ago, at the mouth of a huge bottle-shaped abyss near the Spanish frontier in the Pyrenees, Loubens and twelve other Belgian, French and British spelunkers! led by famed Belgian Physicist Max Cosyns, set out to break their own record. Their wives, resigned to indulging their husbands' odd vacation hobby, stayed together at a nearby hotel...
...delegates, a humorously written guide book, and a meeting place in a vast, Quonset-type building draped with U.S. flags and the Notre Dame college colors. Although there was no doubting the basic orthodoxy of the delegates' theology, some of the sentiments expressed would have sounded odd in conservative quarters of the Vatican, and downright heretical in Cardinal Segura's Seville (see below...