Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says a Burmese official: "The Russians have been quite amiable in their personal relationships. The British, who built our engineering college and polytechnic institute, were very exacting in matters of personal comfort. They demanded select housing for each family, complete with new furniture. With the Soviets we put 20-odd families into five houses, and give them secondhand furniture. There have been no complaints...
...matter how much there was to do, he always had time to joke or chat with the pupils and listen to their troubles. But for all his good humor, Janitor Andersson is a stubborn man. Last week he was barred from the school he loves because of a rather odd and lonely crusade...
Smith has been Merrill Lynch's operating boss for more than a decade, directing a huge supermarket of finance that now handles 12% of the New York Stock Exchange's public round-lot volume and 20% of its odd-lot trading, and has serviced 450,000 investor-clients in the past three months alone. A shrewd New Englander from South Hadley Falls, Mass., he attended Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., went from Amherst ('16) to a $7-a-week runner's job in the fledgling Merrill Lynch Co. with a burning conviction that the brokerage business...
During the six years between her wedding to Scott and her disappearance, Evelyn Throsby Scott cashed some $223,000 worth of securities, in addition to drawing about $180,000 in income from her estate. When she disappeared, there was a lot of money lying around in a dozen-odd bank accounts and safe-deposit boxes. According to subsequent testimony, Scott, using forged signatures, helped himself liberally to the money, spent a bundle of $100 bills on travel, Las Vegas gambling and gifts for a shapely divorcee...
...flumduddery and jiggerypook on the superstitious suburbs of the West. Author Lutyens' first book, A Blessed Girl (1954), evoked a pleasant nostalgia for a childhood spent as a member of an aristocratic family of great talent. This book is an equally engaging story evoking years spent in an odd spiritual adventure...