Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...council, with members worried about re-election; partly to recent Councils' preoccupation with "public relations." The present petitions may be frivilous or they may be quite sincere; their wording is loose enough so that signers' opinions about the Council may run from intense antipathy to apathy. But the thousand-odd signatures on the petitions, whatever their motivation, ought to persuade he Council to take at least a long look at itself, and then put in for a much-needed refit...
...self-control. He was an airman's airman who respected a good mechanic as another man might respect a concert pianist, and who felt that all good pilots were touched with greatness. He liked to see other .men succeed. He had a hellraiser's humor and an odd humbleness which prevented him from posing as a man of destiny. And at his core-steely, stainless and incorruptible-was a gladiator's indomitability...
...Unsold Rug. The zoo-odd Italians, including Premier Alcide de Gasperi, who had gathered to hear Zellerbach speak at a luncheon celebrating the second anniversary of the Marshall Plan, expected only a good meal and some of the pleasantly flattering remarks customary on such occasions. The familiar praise, however, was concentrated at the beginning of the speech. After that, Zellerbach's clipped, nasal voice began to tick off in unusual fashion some of the things that he thought were wrong with Italy...
From its first concert in 1945, the Mozartchor, Dresden's all-girl chorus, was a success. It meant fun and extra income for 30-odd office girls and factory workers, ages 14-30, who were members. They did not realize that it would also mean politics, danger and bitter personal decisions. The trouble began when Germany's Communist youth organization tried to persuade the group to appear at party rallies, add Communist songs to its repertory of hymns, folk music and lullabies. The singers refused...
...drive for street sales, editors often reach preposterously for a local angle. Hearst's American reached all the way to Siam and back again last week for the headline on its story about Cambridge-born King Phumiphon's return to Siam: BOSTON KING IN ODD RITES. With equal zeal, Boston papers reach for any story labeled B.O. MUST (e.g., a story from the business office sent in by an advertiser). But when news breaks that might offend an advertiser, such as a fire or robbery at a department store or a suicide at a leading hotel, either...