Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Huston will never be a great writer, because he is a bad observer. On locations I wore any odd or old clothing, as the going was mostly rough; but when I presented myself at the hotel I did not wear "faded khaki" as Mr. John Huston claims, but was dressed immaculately in a new and expensive tailored suit as would be proper if one is to meet somebody whom he believes important at so swanky a place as the Reforma Hotel...
...Defeats. Although Fawzi Bey, once an officer in the Turkish army, was born in Lebanon 53 years ago, he was no stranger to Palestine. There he got some of the 80-odd wounds which still sometimes make his popeyes water with pain. He had spent a lifetime fighting for Arab independence against the British and French. Now he was returning to Palestine to command the northern sector in the fight against Zionism...
...Philadelphia, the American Friends Service Committee announced that nearly 800 U.S. college students would participate in 60-odd Quaker-sponsored summer work projects. Samples: rebuilding a fire-razed Maine community; the development of recreation programs in Detroit, Chicago and Rowland, Me.; reconstruction of homes and community buildings in Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland and the U.S. zone of Germany...
...whose crew is going to be the number one target for all opposition this season, Varsity Coach Tom Bolles seems peculiarly unruffled these days as he works over this seven-odd boatloads of candidates for tradition-and-honor-steeped position in the first Varsity boat...
Holt remarked that the Hearst reporter had been given three days to assemble information at the Employment Office for an odd job feature, but had distorted the facts and added false statements...