Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land before the voting, "sacred notices" were posted warning Christians that "all are excommunicated and apostate" who support the Reds or "those parties which make common cause with Communism." In parish after parish across Italy the Reds lost strength. Yet in Don Camillo's own village of 400-odd people, the Reds gained. Vingone cast 210 votes for the Communists, only 78 for the Christian Democrats...
...loudspeakers around the world, as the strains of Duke Ellington's Take the A Train die into the background. For the next hour, seven nights a week, 52 weeks a year, the world's most widely heard disk-jockey program has the attention of listeners in 80-odd countries. It is the second and more popular portion of Music U.S.A. (the first half is pop tunes), the Voice of America's only regular music program. The words come from Disk Jockey Willis Conover; the music comes from all over America...
...rainy season is over, and this week along the roads and trails and bicycle tracks of Northern Rhodesia, thousands of Africans are trudging through the bush to a clump of 20-odd huts called the village of Kasomo. They come from as far as 400 miles away to see and hear a plump, 32-year-old native woman and be baptized by her in the name of God-the black man's God. Her name is Lenshina Mulenga, and her magnetic hold on the people around Kasomo is confounding Christian missionaries there...
Birth Pains. Compared to most citadels of high finance, Eugene Black's World Bank is as odd as a platypus in a poultry yard. In its slabsided headquarters in Washington, D.C., it does not even have a vault. Once, when money was left lying around-$30,000 in travel funds-it was promptly stolen by a thief who made a clean getaway. The World Bank was born at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference,*almost as an afterthought to its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund, set up to deal with the temporary "disequilibrium" in world currency-exchange rates...
Meanwhile, despite these flaws in the Clubs' work, Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of Admissions, considers their overall schools and scholarship program infinitely successful. The thousand-odd men participating in it, says Bender, "are doing about the best thing any alumnus could do for the College...