Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laborites still sorely needed a major issue to stir an emotional response to their cry: "Are you getting your share of the prosperity?" They thought they had one as London newspapers suddenly began to blaze with headlines about the strange stock machinations of one Harry Jasper and the 450-odd "companies" of which he is a director. On the London stock exchange, dealings in $55 million worth of securities associated with Jasper's name were summarily suspended; day after day scores of worried investors clustered outside the offices of a Jasper-linked building society that had apparently put more...
...also started a craze for the pseudohistorical country-and-western ballads that the industry sometimes refers to as "saga songs." At odd hours of the day or night, 40-year-old Jimmie Driftwood takes up his guitar and plunks them out with the ease of a molting rattler shucking its skin. His most recent inspiration came to him via a radio newscast while he was touring the Ozarks in his air-conditioned Buick one hot day this summer. Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, he heard, would soon be a visitor to the U.S. Jimmie began to sing, his wife Cleda...
...White City Stadium last June 10, Harvard's Joel Landau stood at the starting line for the 4 X 110 relay with the failure or success of the Harvard-Yale track team's mission in England hanging upon what he and three other runners did in the next 40-odd seconds. As it turned out, the four determined sprinters--Landau and Frank Yeomans of Harvard and Jay Luck and Jim Carney of Yale--won the final relay and gave the Americans a thrilling 8-7 victory over the combined forces of Oxford and Cambridge...
...Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and his wife, Eleanor T. Glueck, research associate in criminology, have compiled the first such tables in the history of criminology. Their findings will be published today by the Harvard University Press in a book entitled "Predicting Delinquency and Crime." Based on 30-odd years of research and study, the Glueck tables chart the offender from pre-delinquency through juvenile and adult court, sentence, parole, and possible freedom...
...worn, long-suffering patsy for Jimmy's tirades, with no vices or bitcheries to balance his, and no problems except Jimmy. In their brief moments of loving communion, Mr. and Mrs. Porter like to pretend that he is a jolly super bear and she a bushy-tailed squirrel--an odd and embarrassing touch of A. A. Milne...