Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clearing up the 60-odd miles of the Charles, which passes through the heart of Massachusetts' most heavily populated and highly industrialized areas has been a State House headache since the turn of the century. The underground pipes which lead from the treatment plants to the river were intended for a much lighter load than the present...
...whom are long dead or out of Russia). Pravda repeats the old line that: 1) MVD labor camps and censorships exist only for "enemies of the people . . . terrorists and assassins"; 2) Russians have freely chosen the Communist party to rule their land, etc. Concludes Pravda, in an odd brand of non-Marxist piety: "Such has been the will of the people-and the voice of the people is the voice...
...best-known riverman, a veteran of three rides through the rapids below the falls in a barrel. He was credited with recovering 177 bodies cast up by the river. Before he died in 1942, he told his son William Jr.: "Look after the river, Red." Red Hill worked at odd jobs, did some tourist guiding, shot the rapids himself in 1945 and 1948, gradually developed an irresistible hankering to go over the falls from the top. If he did it and lived, he would be the fourth person in history to accomplish the feat.* Said he: "People want...
...just lost a son) shouting defiantly to the winds: "There is no death, there is no death!" But with Chekhov, Bunin was more of an intimate contemporary. They conducted the sort of dialogue that used to make men of other nations scratch their heads in wonder at the odd Russian mind. "Do you like the sea?" Bunin asked. "Yes," said Chekhov. "Only it's so empty...
...another old Truman friend and fishing partner. FPC Chairman Mon Wallgren, former governor of Washington and Truman's hand-picked candidate for the FPC job, announced that FPC had decided that independent gas producers were not within its jurisdiction after all. The circumstances surrounding the announcement were odd: FPC, which usually takes weeks to hand down a decision, got this one out nine days after oral hearings were over on a test case concerning Phillips Petroleum Co., world's biggest natural gas producer. Chairman Wallgren said he made his announcement, though the written decision may not be ready...