Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the Moran plan, an ironclad schedule of graft rates was instituted-$10 to $35, depending on the size of an installation. Most of the city's 1,000-odd contractors were thus able to predict the bribe necessary to get a burner or tank certified for operation, and the more venal among them were able to pass the cost along to the customer in their early estimates...
...organizational odd jobs for numerous Communist and Communist-front groups, became known as a handy and trustworthy man with a mimeograph, and wound up in "Pro-4," as select and apparently as important a lot of plotters as over thumbed a copy of "Value, Price, and Profit...
...most famous of Knox's witticisms was a limerick on the Berkeleyan idea that things exist only when they have an observer: There once was a man who said: "God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues...
...Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd...
Suspense (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Odd Man Out, with James Mason and Pamela Kellino...