Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troops marched over his tiny kingdom of Albania, former King Zog, like many another D.P., has been looking for a place to put down roots. Last week he found just what he wanted: a 60-room mansion bordered with a half mile of rhododendron bushes, plus 100-odd acres of rich farm land, on Long Island. It was a barter deal, reported the New York Times. Short on cash, Zog had plunked down "a bucket of diamonds and rubies" in a royal exchange. The King's spokesmen hastily sent out frantic denials. The King, they insisted, had paid...
...Wilson Station at 9:55 one morning last week, Conductor August Beb. his paunch taut but official in his brass-buttoned uniform, walked slowly through the train to see that all was in order. His train was not a big one: a baggage car and three coaches with 100-odd passengers. And there were two baskets of fruit he was supposed to deliver at the Asch station. For a veteran Communist who had spent years studying Marxism, the run was not much to look forward to. Beb often complained to friends that nothing exciting ever happened in his life...
Helped along by the World War II boom and the unparalleled prosperity since, Social Credit's odd mixture of economic theory and religious puritanism has sewed up the loyalty of Alberta's fanners in much the same way that William Jennings Bryan's fundamentalism-cum-free-silver captivated the U.S. Midwest in the '90s. Manning's party has won four straight elections and has all but blotted out the opposition in the legislature. "We don't need an opposition," Ernest Manning has said. "They're just a hindrance...
Workmen digging drains in the village of Buxiéres-les-Froncles, a hundred-odd miles from Paris, last week uncovered the bones of five men, each with his skull cracked, each wrapped in the shreds of a long-outmoded uniform. The mayor, the local schoolteacher and five policemen investigated the strange discovery, got a thorough explanation from the village's oldest inhabitant, 91-year-old Emilie Guillaumot. Her story...
...odd individualist, Florman had no flair or liking for conventional striped-pants diplomacy. He thought he could find his way through Bolivia's intricate political affairs better than the seasoned career men on his staff. Taking charge of embassy press relations, he wrote signed articles for the Bolivian papers explaining events in his own way ("Bolivian silver . . . helped create the first middle class in the world"). He had freely-expressed opinions on everything. But most Bolivians appreciated what the newspaper La Razon called "the friendly attitude with which [Florman] has tried to foster relations between the two peoples...