Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never been within buttonholing distance of a national political convention. But he caught the fever almost from the moment he forted up in his suite at the Blackstone Hotel on Saturday before the big show began. And like anyone else at his first convention, Ike discovered that some mighty odd characters are swept along by the human tides that flow noisily in & out of political headquarters...
Forward, the Veep. Everything was ready for the show except the stars. The 1,230 Democratic votes are distributed ineffectively among half a dozen front runners and a dozen-odd favorite sons. Said Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer in a classic summation: "The situation is confused or fluid, whichever way you want to look at it." Said a more candid White House staffer: "Hell, we've got plenty of candidates. What we need real bad is a candidate who can beat Eisenhower...
...drug, isoniazid (TIME, March 3). The report was carefully evaluated in the gleaming tower of Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Then, last week, Cornell's Dr. Ralph Tompsett got up in London's cavernous, dingy Central Hall and passed the news to 400-odd experts gathered for a British Empire conference on TB. Sum of the findings: isoniazid is the only drug that belongs in the same class with streptomycin for effectiveness against tuberculosis. In most respects it is as good as streptomycin; in some ways, better...
...Odd Jobs & Seminars. Enthusiastically, 30 of them went to work on "Project India." They had no money, no promises of help, and most of them were already busy working their way through college. But they took on extra odd jobs to earn the $250 they figured it would cost each of them to stay in India for two months. One worked as a clerk, another in the library, another helped out at primary elections. Their enthusiasm spread across the campus. The local chapter of Alpha Phi went without desserts and saved $80 for the project. Sunday-school classes contributed their...
...Geiger, an American G.I., came back from Italy with an odd trophy in his barracks bag : a print of Roberto Rossellini's Open City, one of the first movies made in liberated Italy. Geiger had bought the exclusive U.S. rights for $13,000. In seven years the film, which startled U.S. audiences with its documentary realism, grossed more than...