Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Work or Not? Did Boyle make a clean break with his law practice when he moved from an unpaid to a paid job with the committee in 1949? Boyle says that he did, but the details have an odd look. His former law associate, Max Siskind, a sharp, self-possessed Brooklynite, last week told the Senate committee that he has paid Boyle $100,000 in installments at irregular periods over the last two years and owes him $50,000 more. The payments, Siskind said, were part of a settlement he made with Boyle when Boyle left the law office. There...
From New Mexico, McCarthy resorted to jeering. "I wouldn't take the time to answer Connecticut's odd little mental midget who is used as a megaphone for the Communist party-line type of smear." Instead, he orated for more than an hour to the assembled Republicans. Many of them had opposed inviting him. But after hearing Joe reiterate his familiar charges and watching him flourish "documentation," the delegates stood and cheered. At meeting's end, the 17 state chairmen unanimously and formally pledged McCarthy their support as Joe hustled off for more speechifying at the annual...
...purpose--to keep up freshman interest in the game, as well as to condition and train the first-year men for futures with the varsity. The method--to keep all the Yardlings, almost every man of the 90-odd on the squad, in constant action throughout the season...
...Washington for a pre-Manhattan run of Love and Let Love, Missouri-born Ginger Rogers told Drama Critic Richard Coe how it feels to be headed for Broadway again after 21 years and some 60-odd movies. At this stage, she said, it's "feudin' and fussin' all the time. I've never been connected with anything in the theater or movies that didn't have it ... In this case it's all very courtly-much bowing and talking about art and hand-kissing in an atmosphere that sometimes reeks with rage...
...ideals, tensions, hopes and failures as seen through great books from the Iliad to the Waste Land. ¶ The U.S. Naval Academy, with one deadpan eye on West Point, reported that it had just fired one midshipman for cheating. (West Point's score so far this year: 90-odd.) ¶St. John's College, Annapolis (The Great Books), which last year decided to tonic its dwindling student body by taking in coeds, got its first one (of 24 now enrolled). Said 17-year-old Sue Griffith, who arrived early from Green Tree, N. Mex.: "The boys here...