Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into a joint session of both houses, he raked into the hides of "certain obstructionists" who had stampeded his program. They had ignored his plan to increase the terms of state officials from two to four years and his proposed constitutional amendment to reorganize the state's 100-odd commissions, boards and bureaus under tight executive control...
...first Quadrennial General Conference the Methodists had held in Boston for 96 years. On hand were 60-odd bishops and 7,000 lesser clergymen and laymen from some 50 countries. They represented 21 million Christians who call themselves Methodists...
Wittenberg took up wrestling at New York's City College ('39), hasn't lost any of his 300-odd matches since graduation. Famed on the force and around the mats for his polysyllabic vocabulary, Wittenberg has a master's degree from Columbia's Teachers College, taught public school briefly before turning cop. He talks earnestly of "pectoral muscles" and "neural paths," is proud that he is one man who can mangle his opponent but not his mother tongue. After hours, he dabbles in oils and plays enthusiastic chess. In fact, he considers wrestling a kind...
Once in chronological order by chapters, his papers are set in type as a rough working draft. Galleys in hand, Churchill then dictates to secretaries who work in relays, filling in his transitions, anecdotes and explanations. Two are always on call for odd-hours dictation: in the 45-minute drive from London to Chartwell he may reel off 800 words of text. (But sometimes he labors for hours over a paragraph.) A man of enormous vitality, he may dictate as early as 8 a.m. and as late...
...very odd coincidence, something went terribly wrong with this mixture: the cement began to harden before it could be poured, and all hands had to get it out of the machine by brute force. Now & then the picture faintly approximates the iron sadness and bitter glamor which Remarque tried for in his novel; most of the time the deep grimness of the subject and the schmalziness of its exploitation get embarrassingly in each other...