Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odd how clumsy a first-rate state highway cop could be when it came to investigating a murder. The thin body of 20-year-old Margaret Senteney, bruised and garroted, lay sprawled face upward in the sagebrush, when Undersheriff John Ross and Highway Patrolman Leonard Kirkes got to the scene one day in August 1942. The place was a desolate corner of Maestro Leopold Stokowski's rambling foothill estate, high above Margaret's home town of Carpinteria on the Southern California coast. The only clues were a couple of big footprints and a tire track -and despite Undersheriff...
Last week the 9,000-odd doctors and dentists who were trained at Government expense for service in World War II got notice that they might soon be called upon to repay their debt. All those who served fewer than 90 days in World War II and are now classified 1-A will be called up within the next six months, said the U.S. Defense Department. Those who served up to 21 months will follow. Meanwhile, all doctors and dentists under 50 throughout the nation who are not members of the Reserve forces were told to register for the draft...
Butterflies & Men in White. Tatum flew an average of one mission every two days, about an hour and 40 minutes to each mission. The entries in his journal are phrased like a boy's diary notes on how many butterflies he caught or what odd shells he found on the beach, but there is a deadly difference...
...compensation. The Cole Porter songs, such as No Lover for Me, are pleasant enough, but not really exciting, and the Porter lyrics generally display his signature without his skill. Hanya Holm enlivens the show with her decorative dances. And Out of This World brings back to Broadway, after 20-odd years, likable, prancing, perpendicular Comedienne Charlotte Greenwood. But it more or less brings her back in chains...
...supreme power. While Nehru made speeches and handled India's foreign relations, Patel shaped much of the nation's domestic policy. As Home Minister, he used his police to suppress Communist terrorism and to "discipline" troublesome labor unions. As States Minister, he brought India's 550-odd feudal princelings to heel. (In one whirlwind 96-hour tour he pressured two dozen princes into surrendering their political powers, thus added 8,000,000 people and 56,000 square miles to the Dominion of India.) Together with his many friends among India's industrialists, he worked successfully...