Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with crowed he) hoped to pick up the votes of any Democrats who thought Helen Douglas too much of a Fair Dealer and too stridently prolabor. In his earlier, more venturesome days, their political tracks might have lain confusingly closer: under Boddy the News had once trafficked in some odd political nostrums...
Because of the nature of the Soviet economy, odd items will crop up in advertisements. "Glass dolls' eyes now being made," the public is told. The Soviet Sculptors' Trust informs collective farm and union centers that it "has ready a sculpture of Lenin by D. P. Schwartz, 2 meters 25 cm. high, made of concrete. Price 3,500 rubles ($875); time of delivery, 2-3 months. For orders, telegraph Moscow Skulpcombinat...
Splitting the Bill. Most counterfeiters learn their trade from other counterfeiters. Hugo taught himself-in the St. Louis public library. He began his studies in 1922, when he was 29. He had come to the U.S. from Sweden in 1909, had drifted from one odd job to another, had spent a year in a tuberculosis sanitarium, and was down & out. Hour after hour, day after day, he sat in the reading room, poring over books on photography, engraving and the history and manufacture of money...
...Bangkok's newspapers appeared in odd-colored inks to mark the day-red, blue, green, and a raspberry known locally as impulsive red. Instead of news stories they carried long columns of verse. At 5 a.m., a navy radio station began to broadcast the proceedings. It was a most discreet broadcast, failing to mention that when the King was transferring by PT boat from the liner Selandia to the Sri Ayuthia, he did a good-humored dance to the buffeting of the waves...
...Bangkok's many Chinese restaurants', every one of which has exactly 384 dishes listed on the menu. This 384 is not a mystic Sino-Siamese number-it derives simply from the fact that all the restaurants patronize the same printer. Most of them have 20-odd dishes on hand, and if the customer can't have what he orders, mai ben rai. And there is beer from all over the world: Mexico's Tecate, America's Pabst, Germany's Klosterbrau, Denmark's Carlsberg...