Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparently designed for dwarfs." Delhi's barmen, in need of practice after two years of prohibition, suddenly found themselves back in business -but only for one week, and to serve only those who wore the magic silver lotus lapel badge. Those who wore it were the 1,000-odd delegates and guests at the 13th annual meeting of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), gathered in the air-conditioned comfort of Delhi's modern House of Science...
...already a zealot about exercise-he ran the mile between home and school both ways. But he insists now: "It wasn't organized athletics-most of my exercise came from hard work, and I had plenty of that." He got much of it in the form of odd jobs, for as much as 25? an hour (a princely sum for a boy during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes), plus helping his father to mow and cradle hay in the summer...
...doesn't lose it; bigger boys of his own gang take it away from him. The rest of The Long Night tells how Steely tries to beg, borrow or steal $27. No one will let him work for it. The Harlem fancy man for whom he has done odd jobs offers a single dollar. In desperation Steely snatches a woman's purse only to wind up with $2. When he steals a bicycle, planning to sell it, it is in turn stolen from him by a rival gang. When he decides to throw away the last...
...City, he described his ideas of "literary photography," the quality in his later writing which was to make critics throw up their hands in disgust, and prompt Bernard DeVoto to growl about the "proper business of fiction." Wolfe wrote to Baker: "I have written this play with thirty-odd named characters because it required it, not because I didn't know how to save paint. Some day I'm going to write a play with fifty, eighty, a hundred people--a whole town, a whole race, a whole epoch--for my soul's ease and comfort...
Togoland is a hot and humid little country lying between Ghana (which won its independence from Britain) and Nigeria (which is about to). The blacks, about 1,100,000 strong, far outnumber Togoland's 2,000-odd Europeans. A former German protectorate, Togoland has, since 1922, been run by the French, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under a U.N. trusteeship. Its hottest politician is Premier Sylvanus Olympic, whose family once were slaves in Brazil...