Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then for four years, through Fort Worth's "blue northers" and hot summers, he worked away at his game. He picked up a fair dollar any way he could, working at dozens of odd jobs. The next time he hit the golf circuit (in 1937) he had two mouths to feed: he had married attractive Valerie Fox, a home-town girl he had known since they went to kid parties together. They skimped on food and entertainment. Ben haunted the practice tee, even brought his putter back to the hotel to practice...
Every week an old U.S. Navy crash boat, renamed the Marlin, shoves off from Fort-de-France, Martinique. Aboard are 4O-odd brightly turbaned native women, carrying demijohns and wicker baskets and headed for the British island of St. Lucia, a five-hour ride across the choppy blue Caribbean...
...they have, either the agony of torture or the degradation of being tortured; between captured and captors develops a terrific desire to make the other party feel psychologically defeated; more & more the prisoners of the Vichyites are motivated by pride rather than patriotism. The pity continues to take odd and sudden turns right...
Subsonic Express. At Muroc (Calif.) Air Force Base, Northrop Aircraft, Inc. ran first flight tests on an odd-looking plane that seemed to have swallowed its tail. Called the X-4, it is a batshaped little (20 ft. long) craft with two jet engines and broad, backswept wings (see cut). No entry in the supersonic sweepstakes, the X-4 was designed in the belief that subsonic speeds will still be the practical concern of aviation for many years. It will be used for research at speeds of about 650 m.p.h...
...Columbia Records, there was much less hoopla. Their new Manhattan recording studio, a converted church, was as sparsely peopled as an English cathedral at evensong. A hundred-odd lights, suspended like enormous inverted flowers from the beamed ceiling, illuminated a small group of bored musicians, engineers and minor officials. A poker game was started, and Arthur Godfrey, who had been called in to cut some corn named I'm Going Back to Whur I Come From, "noodled," as he called it, on the studio organ. When word came that the ban was over, Columbia, undistracted by bigwigs and publicity...