Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iver Olson, representative of Franklin Roosevelt's War Refugee Board in Sweden. Olson and Johnson put the mission to Wallenberg simply: Would he go to Budapest as a member of the neutral Swedish-legation staff and, using U.S. funds, try to save Hungary's remaining 300,000-odd Jews (prewar Hungarian Jewish population: 800,000) from Nazi gas chambers or slave-labor camps? Wallenberg was warned that if the Germans or the Hungarian puppet government learned of his work, nothing could be done to save him. "If I can help," said Raoul Wallenberg, "if I can save...
...wreckage and staggered away. First to the rescue were 50 fast-moving trusties from the island's city-run penitentiary, who rushed outside, fought their way to the planeside and helped survivors to safety. The count: of the six crew members and 95 passengers aboard, 20 killed, 50-odd hospitalized. Said Pilot Marsh dazedly: "Her power just drained out. She just wouldn...
Uniquely among TV quiz shows, Twenty One is shrewdly designed to test the same odd combination of many-sided learning and the gambler's art. Packaged and owned by M.C. Jack Barry and Dan Enright, the show may pop questions in any of 108 categories of information that range across the board of knowledge. Moreover, though the contestant stakes none of his own money at the outset, he risks his winnings every time he chooses to play...
...Aghast." Even if they grow blasé or hostile toward Van Doren as an unbeatable contestant, it is difficult to imagine viewers tiring of the fascinating, suspense-taut spectacle of his highly trained mind at work. Breathing heavily, Charlie coaxes elusive answers out of odd corners of his brains by talking to himself, muttering little associated fragments of knowledge. Like a boxer staying down for a count of nine, he takes all the time he can possibly get ("Let's skip that part, please, and come back to it"). When trying to identify the character in La Traviata...
What of the Night? In London, the judge threw out Albert English's claim for $5,742 in back pay after English testified that although he had been paid for 30 hours a week as a restaurant odd-job man, the boss had neglected to reimburse him for 61 hours weekly he spent in a bedroom adjoining the eatery, "asleep with an ear cocked...