Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...odd feature of the National Health Service Act is that all foreigners, whether they pay British taxes or not, are entitled to free treatment under the National Health Service Act. Last spring a doctor in Calais complained that his French patients were crossing the Channel to get free British treatment; some were reported to have resold their free dentures and spectacles on the Continent...
...bandits' leader had cased the job well: he demanded two of the suitcases in the car and the Begum's jewel case. In them was jewelry worth between $600,000 and $800,000 (insured with Lloyds of London) ; among the 40-odd pieces were a $125,000, 25-carat diamond and a $190,000 bracelet...
Incest of the Soul. If August Strindberg had lived in the heyday of Freud, he would probably have been locked up as a paranoiac or reduced to the status of a dull neurotic. Since he died unpsychoanalyzed, in 1912, he remained merely a famous literary figure and an exceedingly odd duck...
...Catholic seminary, established at Maynooth in 1795, was staffed by a number of French professors fleeing the terror of the French Revolution. O'Faolain concludes that their influence stamped generations of Irish priests with distrust of any rebellion against authority. Since the Irish themselves were incorrigibly rebellious, the odd end result, O'Faolain thinks, is "a permanent and positive clerical antipathy to the laity...
Handyman. In Spokane, Disc-Jockey Robert Swartz, who had offered to do any odd jobs for listeners recognizing a popular tune played backwards, faced the prospect, after 18 people guessed right, of having to roof a house, iron some shirts, mow a lawn, repair a fishpond and weed a strawberry patch...