Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everywhere the Queen and Prince Philip went, Parisian crowds gathered to gape and cheer. Outside the opera the welcoming hordes pressed so close that the mounted guards had to drive them back with drawn swords. At a huge reception in the Louvre many of the 2,000-odd distinguished guests vied with each other for vantage points on the pedestals of world-famed works of art as museum guards shook their heads in despair. "I expected Marcus Aurelius to topple over on me at any moment," said one grande dame nervously. As the party broke up, even the footmen...
...radicals), as astronomers suspect, the fragments should be excited by sunlight and made to broadcast on characteristic wave lengths. The Naval Research Laboratory in Washington has turned its 50-ft. radio disk on the comet in the hope of detecting waves from hydroxl (OH) radicals. If astronomers find this odd stuff in comets, they may be able to trace it back into interstellar space. This may lead them, in turn, to new knowledge about what the universe is made...
...Dramatic Flash. What Ford needed desperately, Wallace said at the outset, was a name "that flashes a dramatically desirable picture in people's minds . . . Over the past few weeks this office has confected a list of 300-odd candidates which, it pains me to relate, are characterized by an embarrassing pedestrianism. We are miles short of our ambition...
...next eleven months Miss Moore heard nothing more. Then, on Nov. 8, 1956, Wallace dropped Poetess Moore a short note: "We have chosen a name out of the more than 6,000-odd candidates that we gathered. It fails somewhat of the resonance, gaiety and zest we were seeking. But it has a personal dignity and meaning to many of us here. Our name, dear Miss Moore, is-Edsel...
Once his steps ranged beyond his favored places-Sussex, France, Rome-Belloc's zeal turned to disgust. He described Germany as "an odd filter through which civilization gets to the Slavs." He despised the Tyrol ("detestable"), the Kremlin ("quite insignificant"). Angry, this mind spewed along. Max Beerbohm said, "like a Roman river full of baskets and dead cats"; fixed, it set in hard grooves. "I suppose," said Beerbohm, on hearing that Belloc had witnessed cricket, "he would have said that the only good wicket-keeper in the history of the game was a Frenchman and a Roman Catholic...