Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Satchel Paige figures that in 50-odd years he has pitched at least 2,000 games. Record books in the Negro leagues are mostly blank or spotted pages, but even the authenticated feats of the long (6 ft. 3 in.) and languid Satchel are almost as incredible as the legend...
...characteristically as "the extremest crisis man has ever seen (except a few)," the poet lived quietly, delighted with visits from his grandchildren (he has ten). To his young visitors the old man with his dark massive head like that of a Roman emperor, would sometimes put one of his odd, sharp questions: "What do you think is the color of your thoughts?" He has had nothing to say about the new honors given him, or the reawakening admiration for his work. As for the hardbought value of civilization, in his neat hand he once wrote on that subject...
...odd thing about the fine crop was that the stalks were stunted; no man could stand waist-deep in most Oklahoma wheatfields. But the heads of the wheat were astonishingly fat. Many had what appeared to be double heads. When he first picked some samples, the Oklahoma Experiment Station's Dr. A. M. Schlehuber, who has done wheat research for 17 years, thought that he had found a new variety. But as the telescope-like heads turned up on one variety after another, he discarded his theory, confessed: "I don't know...
...Ford fans. In approach, they range from out & out product brochures to International Business Machines' ad-less Think, which runs weighty pieces by such guest byliners as Secretary of State George Marshall. There are some big chains in the house-organ field: Du Pont has 40-odd periodicals, the Borden Co. 35, International Harvester...