Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the battle is far from won in New York City, one of the nation's strongholds of the summertime coat and tie, where many a stuffy restaurant owner keeps a supply of odd-size jackets on hand to make sure that customers can be made socially acceptable on hot afternoons. But this week the Gallup poll reported some encouraging returns. Seven out of ten U.S. women, said Gallup, now look with approval on shirt-sleeved males...
Silent Service. No one knows better than U.S. submariners themselves how deadly a sub can be. In 1941, when the proud surface Navy suffered the disaster of Pearl Harbor, a handful of nerveless men had pointed the sharp prows of so-odd U.S. subs toward Japan and written a record of blood and battle unsurpassed in U.S. naval history. Not one of them had ever before fired a torpedo in battle (U.S. subs engaged mainly in uneventful patrol work in World War I), but for two years they were almost the entire U.S. offensive force in the Pacific...
...week Greece's Primate Archbishop Spyridon climbed the same hill to conduct vesper services and speak in commemoration of St. Paul's declaration. Not much of Christian Athens turned out for the occasion with King Paul, Queen Frederika, Prime Minister Venizelos and the diplomatic corps. But 200-odd pilgrims from 57 Christian denominations and a score of countries listened and were moved. Said Episcopal Bishop Lauriston Livingston Scaife of Western New York, afterwards: "Chills went up and down my spine...
...Carnegie International exhibitions. After Franco took over Spain, Junyer came to the U.S. and earned a new reputation as an innovator. Pictures, he decided, are too limited-because they have to be evenly lighted and looked at headon. So he turned to sculpture-paintings, which are made to fit odd corners as well as flat walls, can be seen from different angles, in changing lights, with an almost unlimited variety of effects. Each angle and light shows a different facet of Junyer's work...
...donor of the collection is 73-year-old Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, D.S.O., late of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, who first took up his odd pursuit in 1928, after more than 25 years spent in fighting the Empire's battles, from skirmishes in India to the trenches of World War I. Instead of retiring to his London town house, which bristles with lion and panther heads, he teamed up with his young cousin, Zoologist Theresa Clay, and mounted an offensive against the Mallophaga. He and Theresa believe that the lice can be used as a small...