Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among all the presidential campaign hats flying through the air last week was an odd furry model with a long floppy tail. It was the coonskin campaign cap of Tennessee's well-tailored Senator Estes Kefauver. The Kefauver-for-President boom was still hardly more than a boomlet. But in separate press conferences last week, two leading Democratic Senators gave the boomlet another boost. Illinois' Paul Douglas, who still wants Eisenhower for President, still hopes Harry Truman will just go quietly away, noted "increasingly favorable sentiment for Senator Kefauver." Minnesota's Fair Dealing Hubert Humphrey, who still...
Back from Outside. But Duffy knew San Quentin. He was born there (the son of a prison guard), grew up inside the walls, and married the daughter of another San Quentin guard. Fascination for the gloomy pile, and an odd, boyhood ambition-to live some day in the big warden's mansion-brought him back from a job on the "outside...
...Docherty. For 20 months, black-browed Dr. Docherty had preached in his soft Scottish burr in the modernistic Lisner Auditorium of George Washington University, and it was considered a measure of his success that even under this handicap, the church not only held its 1,700-odd members but even increased its rolls by about...
...patrol building jobs, call strikes when necessary and keep a sharp watch on employers. He also kept a sharp watch on union politics, got himself named as a delegate to the 1910 national convention. By 1915 he had fought his way to the presidency, had joined the Odd Fellows, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Masons (York and Scottish rites) and Indianapolis' Highland Golf & Country Club...
...which was said to total 132,474 names. This compendium, typed on both sides of 2,000 sheets of paper, stood a foot high on the conference table. The Reds objected because the list was written in phonetic English.* "A pile of rubbish," they called it. The objection was odd, for the Communists had been furnished with lists of their prisoners all along through the Red Cross, and had never previously registered a complaint. Nevertheless the U.N. agreed to translate the whole list into Korean and Chinese characters...