Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Senator Chan Gurney, chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, who had just returned from a European junket, urgently demanded a U.S. military alliance with Spain. He also voiced a principle that had an odd sound coming from a country which objects to Communist tyranny everywhere. Said he: "It is not up to us to tell countries what kind of a government they ought to have...
...first games come after two weeks of more or less intensive conditioning. Two hundred-odd candidates for the eight teams have been put through conditioning and signal drills in an attempt to reduce the chances of injuries in the usually ragged games; and each unit has undergone considerable blackboard work...
There are many reasons why Harvard showed a complete reversal of form from the Columbia game. Some of them can be pinned down like the difference between not being scouted last week and being scouted thoroughly this week, or Cornell's use of 20-odd defenses compared to Columbia's sticking to a single defensive formation throughout the game...
Next day, stoutly denying any intent of censorship, CBS officials mumbled about "technical difficulties." Gypsy's sudden departure from the screen was just "a very odd coincidence." Said Miss Lee: "It was nearly midnight. Surely the kiddies aren't watching at that hour...
...Pont case also had some odd aspects...