Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better have said, "how they might feel if they had read the book." For the great number of you who buy books, TIME tries to offer a selective guide, rather than give "instruction," on what is best in contemporary reading. Few people have the time to read the 200-odd books reviewed in the section each year; fewer still have the opportunity to cull the lists of 10,000 or more books published in this country each year. TIME tries in its reviews to tell you enough about the better books to help you decide which ones you would most...
...over steel, Washington hardly seemed to notice another ugly eruption last week. For the first time in history, the U.S. oil industry was hit by a nationwide strike. Some 90,000 of the industry's 268,000 workers walked out at refineries, distribution plants and pipelines of yo-odd companies, from New Jersey to Texas, cutting production by an estimated...
...when they apply for passports. The stumblers usually don't realize the perils of touring unbidden in the Red domain; they think that what happened to those trapped by their jobs behind the Curtain-Correspondent William Oatis in Czechoslovakia (see PRESS), Businessman Robert Vogeler in Hungary and 60-odd Americans in Communist China-can't happen to casual tourists...
Besides guzzling beer and generally whooping it up, the 2,000-odd straw-hatted Regatta Day carousers who will crowd the banks of the Charles this afternoon will also witness one of the most exciting crew races of the season. It will certainly be one of the most decisive. All three varsity crews are undefeated, and two of them, Navy and Penn, frequently have been rated by sportwriters as Olympic material...
...most significant changes have to do with shifts of public attitudes. Plays written in the depths of the 1930s depression sometimes have quite an odd sound to ears tuned to 1952's prosperity. In last week's TV version of Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted, there was no longer any mention of the fact that one of the leading characters was a confirmed Wobbly. Says Mab Anderson: "People today don't even know what Wobblies...