Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter to Wood, Playwright Hellman had said that she would be willing to tell all about herself, unless that meant getting old associates in "bad trouble." In an odd illustration of her point, she refused to state whether she had ever known a screenwriter named Martin Berkeley, a "cooperative" witness who had helped get Lillian herself in trouble...
Pole Vault. Democratic politicos know Harriman can never hope to rival Estes Kefauver as a handshaker and winner of popularity contests. Instead, they have mapped a speaking tour through a dozen-odd cities from Boston to San Francisco just so delegates and the professional pols can get to know Harriman. If Adlai Stevenson definitely bows out and Harry Truman gives the nod, Harriman might possibly vault into the nomination on the strength of boss-controlled votes-without having entered a single primary...
Aware that Oregon was probably an Eisenhower state, Senator Taft prudently kept his name out of the popularity contest in last week's primary. But in the confused race among 50-odd candidates for the state's 18 delegates to the Republican convention, a Taft-Ike battle developed anyway. On the eve of the vote, the Ike forces glumly conceded that Taft might win three or four of the delegates...
...winding up his busiest season since the war at Glenlivet Distillery, which stands on a brae overlooking a fertile Banffshire valley in the heart of the Highlands. Black peat smoke belched from the distillery's tall chimney, and the pungent odor of fermenting barley drifted from its odd-shaped kiln towers. Glenlivet's 50 workers, completing their biggest distilling season in seven years, processed the last batches of whisky before the annual summer shutdown. In the three summer months, the tumbling mountain springs which rise 1,200 feet above the glen go dry; then Glenlivet...
...odd score resulted from the fact that each Schneider's run counted only one-half...