Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thereupon the delegates settled methodically to work in 16 committees, dealing with 1,500-odd recommendations that will occupy the conference. Among the more pressing and controversial subjects: ¶ A church survey commission, working with a firm of Chicago management engineers, has mapped out a radical streamlining of church agencies, suggested a coordinating council to make sense out of the welter of semi-autonomous church boards. ¶ A special commission has recommended that candidates for the ministry should no longer be obliged to sign a pledge against smoking...
...finally spotted the YB-60 in flight he could only swear; it was too late to make his last edition, and the morning Star-Telegram, also owned by Carter, would get the break on the story. Then, in a flight of B-36s hovering high overhead, Cain saw something odd. One of the B-36s let something drop. It shot away so fast that it was obviously either a rocket or jet fighter...
...forgiven for featuring a chess tournament in your Sport pages. You may be forgiven for nigh onto any other honest mistake. But take cover, brother . . . when you misplace a cherished possession of 20-odd thousand fight-at-the-drop-of-a-hat citizens of Bartlesville, Okla. When those citizens read in TIME, April 7 Sport section that the Phillips Oilers were from Denver, Colo., the air was rent with screams of anguish that would have done justice to the Brooklyn faithful in the Polo Grounds last October...
...result of group effort. Louis Skidmore, 55, and his cofounder, Nathaniel A. Owings, 49, were both trained in the Beaux Arts ("best things of the past") tradition, but quickly looked beyond it. With John Merrill, 55, and their seven partners, six associate partners, 13 participating associates and 700-odd dedicated young draftsmen, engineers and experts, they have taken the ideas of Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and other pioneers of the International (or United Nations Building) School and moulded them to the needs of their clients...
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