Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate. In the Washington senatorial campaign and in a dozen-odd of the 34 other current senatorial contests in the U.S. (see box) lie strong Republican hopes for recapturing control of the U.S. Senate in November. Last week in San Francisco, with the presidential and vice-presidential ticket duly nominated, the G.O.P. turned full attention to its allout drive to win the Senate. But along with the will to win, Dwight Eisenhower pledged himself to another kind of campaign: to fashion a new Republican Party that will bring into action the principles of Eisenhower Republicanism. To this...
These details taken care of, Stevenson filmed some of the 80-odd five-minute TV spot announcements that will hit the air waves in the weeks ahead, began working out plans for making six national TV addresses, announced that he would kick off his campaign with a big play for the labor vote: * a Labor Day speech, under the wing of United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther, in Detroit's Cadillac Square...
...domesticity, Dorothy Tyler comes close to acting out her dream. She has been jumping all her life. Her odd avocation dates back to grade school, when she won a high-jumping tournament and set a schoolgirl record (4 ft. 9 in.) that still stands. After that she studied to become a secretary. "Secretaries," she explains, "don't work on Saturdays, when they have athletic meets...
...hardship at all to Miss R.E.M. Bessemer, the lean, sixtyish granddaughter of famed Steelman-Inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, whose family home is within a stone's throw of the Bluebell and Primrose. Though she usually rode about in her own motorcar, wealthy Miss Bessemer had an odd affection for the Bluebell and Primrose. "We oughtn't," she told her neighbors, "to look at it as a wee strip of line, but as part of a whole principle." In England there is always an appropriate society for such invokers of principle. She sought the aid of the Society...
...will not tolerate air conditioning-"You know, I'm delicate. My hair gets wet, the air conditioning hits it, and I get a sharp pain right down the middle of my back." His personal vanity extends to his feet, which he exercises against the wall at odd moments during his busy days and nights...