Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife and various employees at the local Stock's Hotel, to oppose the old-guard deputies. "It's a disgrace, a perfect disgrace," muttered one oldtimer, "holding the island up to ridicule." In the local greystone schoolhouse (which doubles as the parliament chamber), he and 190-odd other voters of Sark soon made their indignation evident on the ballot. Not one of Henry Head's New Brigade Party was elected...
...industry spawned by Clarence Birdseye's durable fish today is a baby whale in the U.S. economy; its gross last year was $700 million. Thanks to its early start, General Foods' Birds Eye-Snider division forms the biggest segment of the industry. Its 50-odd frozen foods this year will account for a sizable chunk of General Foods' estimated $500 million gross sales. Last week, to help it stay ahead, Birds Eye-Snider brought out the first frozen tomato-juice concentrate, hopes to have another bestseller...
...money to start it, Hecht formed Parents Institute Inc., and got a $325,000 grant from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial Fund by agreeing to assign control of his company to four universities (Yale, Columbia, Iowa and Minnesota). The odd partnership gave canny Publisher Hecht academic alliances which brought an impressive array of famous educators to Parents' masthead as "advisory editors." It also brought the schools a golden flow of income from Parents and a handful of new magazines. By 1949, when Publisher Hecht finally bought up control of Parents Institute, the colleges had already taken out substantial profits...
Flora Robson acts the harassed Mrs. Christie with quiet authority and a complete absence of tricks, and Anthony Ireland and Raymond Huntley do well as psychiatrist and husband. A play so full of shocks and dilemmas naturally has its moments. What seems odd is that there aren't more of them...
Some more recent Indians proved to have had some odd customs. While investigating village sites near the Trinity River in Texas, diggers under Robert T. Stephenson of the Smithsonian found "ceremonial pits" 90 feet across and ten feet deep. In one was the skeleton of a bear, laid out with a full ceremonial burial. Apparently the Trinity River Indians worshiped or otherwise honored bears, as did the hairy Ainu of northern Japan...