Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fingerprints quickly fingered "Doe" as Frank Henry Kierdorf, 56, bull-voiced business agent of Flint's Teamster Local 332 and one of Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa's 40-odd crooked business agents (i.e., personal representatives). Eventually, Kierdorf gave his own explanation of his burns. He was home alone in Flint, he said, when two workmen appeared, invited him to a secret organizing meeting. At their plea for haste, he tossed bathrobe over T shirt and trousers, climbed into their old Packard. Outside Pontiac, 40 miles away, his hosts stuck a gun at his neck, doused him with fluid...
...heavyweight prizefighter managed by Hoffa's pal Owen Brennan drew $75 a week for two years as a Teamster welfare-fund claims investigator but did no investigating at all, instead he did odd jobs on Brennan's horse farm. The prizefighter's straightforward testimony about his Teamster days (now ended) flatly contradicted what Hoffa told the committee a year ago, and Chairman McClellan said he would ask the Justice Department to investigate the conflict...
Today, at least half the remaining 3,000-odd Chinese priests are in prison or are undergoing three daily two-hour "indoctrinations" on the advantages of joining the Patriotic Association. "We are groping in the darkness," wrote one of them in a letter smuggled from Shanghai to Hong Kong. The "tumultuous" Red preaching sessions "are enough to drive one mad," he added. "The director is always present. He pounds the table, shouts, yells and screams at the stalling tactics of the assembled priests. You can't imagine how these rabid talkers force you to think, concede, admit...
...whole new class of TV-age entertainers-the just-talkers. But his appeal has little in common with Steve Allen's brash sidewalk zaniness or Arthur Godfrey's somnolent saloon drone. When Paar appears on screen, there is an odd, hesitant hitch to his stride. For a split self-effacing second he is a late arrival, worried that he has blundered into the wrong party. His shy smile-he has developed one of the shiest smiles in the business-seems to ask a question: "Is this applause for me?" Then he remembers: he is really the host. Almost...
...margin-raising action was not necessary. The small investor has been doing very well. For the past year the professional traders, large investors and stock specialists have been selling more than buying, in the belief that the market would go lower. But the small investor, as shown by the odd-lot (under 100 shares) records, has been buying more than selling, added a total of 13,679,000 shares to his holdings by midyear. In June many small investors began to cash in their profits. Since then, they have been selling more stock than buying...