Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then fade away. Only a few of the home-town heroes still look like heroes when the big-time tournaments begin. As tournament time approached last week, there was a good-sized batch of local stars whose talents raised them above purely local acclaim. The standouts made up an odd package of assorted shapes and sizes. Some of them:
This year's freshman class has staged perhaps the most interesting Jubilee Committee campaigns in recent years. Climaxing their activities with two rallies and one near-riot Tuesday, three bogus candidates and their rabid supporters have spent an estimated $100 and countless hours in outdoing twenty-odd legitimate campaigners...
Alex Smith looked odd as Mike Mansfield walked away leaving him with arm upraised, but Mansfield's claim was odder. Yet there was some truth in it: paradoxically, Mansfield and his fellow Democrats had managed to deny Ike a request by upholding presidential powers...
Never before had the 400-odd island villagers of North Haven seen such a fine schoolteacher and all-round nice fellow as lovable, affable Martin Godgart. A happy, hulking (6 ft., 250 lb.), multichinned chap with a Harvard accent, Godgart turned up last September on the tiny Penobscot Bay island off the coast of Maine, flashed a schoolteacher's certificate, got himself a job teaching high-school English, Latin and French. He quickly made friends with the normally reserved down-East folk; they liked his jolly ways, his eagerness to participate in North Haven affairs. He formed...
...floors contain a number of bedrooms for visiting members and the 20-odd permanent residents of the Club. Since the Club does not have a very large non-resident membership (about 1000 out of the 3890 total membership), the hotel part is not usually filled. The rooms are mostly singles and doubles; there are only three rooms for married couples. All the walls are covered with old prints of the College...