Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odd Jobbing. Robinson's adolescent dream was to go to college, but his father spiked that because the oldest Robinson boy, Dean, had become a morphine addict after getting his M.D.; if that was the fruit of college learning, Edwin might better stay at home. Lonely and miserable, young Robinson lolled around the town, doing odd jobs and writing verses...
Representing the Crimson Varsity, among the 15-odd colleges sending players to the three-day tourney, will be Captain Adam Foster, Bill Wightman, George Stevens, Lane McGovern, who won his spot on the entry list by coming out on top in an informal play-off with other squad members...
...tour was going swimmingly: the lead was seesawing, and the money was rolling in. There was talk of extending the present schedule of 70-odd matches. Kramer, who gets the bigger percentage of the gate, stands to earn $115,000 or more...
...Wilson, head of Hammermill Paper Mill Co., Edward F. Wilson, head of Wilson & Co., John L. Wilson, head of St. Louis Public Service Co., Laroy W. Wilson, head of Advance Aluminum Castings Co., H. W. Wilson, head of H. W. Wilson Book Co., nor to any of the dozen-odd Wilsons who head other large U.S. companies...
...newly-elected 40-odd-man national board encompasses all of labor minus the Harry Bridges-led splinter of the CIO as well as the young men in the Democratic Party and the now minority-representation of independent liberal citizens. Here enter Reinhold Niebuhr, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ex-housing expediter Wilson Wyatt, and movie star Ronald Reagan. Eleanor Roosevelt looms a power behind the scenes. This total coalition's impressiveness stems from the fact that it is influence mobilized with the sole immediate political end of isolating Henry Wallace. To do this job and to elect congressmen who meet "progressive...