Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing on its tractor-drawn launching trailer, the Matador looks like an odd crossbreed of a jet plane and a Buck Rogers fantasy. It is long, sleek, round as a cigar, and fitted with a pair of stubby supersonic triangular wings. In its nose, the missile carries a sand-filled dummy warhead. In its tail, the Matador carries a jet engine for endurance and a huge, underslung rocket motor for take-off power. Inside the Matador, every inch of space is crammed with fuel and the humming electronic navigator that guides it to its target...
...went to college classes at odd hours, was graduated, and finally got a job in the State Department. But during years abroad, as U.S. consul in Windsor, Ont., Stuttgart, Antwerp, Lisbon and Algiers, and as consul-general in Marseille, he did not forget his memories of Washington. When he came back to the capital as head of the visa division, he confined himself to rigid administration of the immigration laws, surrounded himself with experienced men, kept a policy of complete honesty and forthrightness with legislators. His policy worked out so well that even Nevada's crusty Pat McCarran, self...
Sheila found an odd way out. With Awood's life savings ($400), she hired a lawyer, asked the Supreme Court to declare her officially nonwhite. One of Sheila's uncles was on hand to swear that the family had some Negro blood in its veins. Perplexed Justice DeVilliers, looking on Sheila's straight brown hair and clear white skin, admitted that his eyes told him a different story, found Sheila "predominantly white." He nevertheless agreed to Sheila's request, ruled her colored,ordered the magistrate to marry her.* At home last week, Sheila nursed newborn daughter...
When Colonel Blimp opened one of his favorite papers one day last week-the Tory Evening Standard-he got an eye-bugging jolt. Gad, sir, the Standard seemed to have an odd new contributor: hell-raising Laborite Aneurin Bevan, who once called the Conservative press "the most prostituted in the world...
...hundred seventy-five Radcliffe newcomers will tread daily to the Yard along with the 700-odd time-weathered 'Cliffedwellers. An extended program of joint instruction will place both male and female classes of '55 side by side in every classroom except for the sections of five large courses...