Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albert Clifton, legislative representative for the Massachusetts CIO and co-speaker of the HLU-sponsored meeting, surveyed Labor's chances in the 1948 elections and gave the 50-odd members of his audience a few tips on the latest bell-pushing techniques to motivate pollshy voters...
Then, before Britain's Royal Duke & Duchess of Gloucester (who had traveled from London for the occasion) and 150,000 of Ceylon's six million-odd Eurasians, Indians, Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors and Malays, rugged, 6 ft., 63-year-old Prime Minister Don Stephen ("Jungle John") Senanayake hauled the old Lion flag to its place atop the Temple of the Tooth.* By a peaceful act of Britain's Parliament, Ceylon-like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire, India and Pakistan-had become a sovereign dominion of the British Commonwealth...
...tuxedoed old judge bent down to peer at the odd little creature, a child shrilled: "What is it, momma, a lamb?" Unconscious of the childish blasphemy and of the Madison Square Garden crowd, Dr. Samuel Milbank studied the Bedlington terrier intently-measuring his narrow skull, feeling his linty coat and reached (arched) back, testing his alertness and movement...
William Yandell Elliott spoke Tuesday night on "The Polities of One World," and it seemed like a pretty good idea to go and hear him. Evidently the 200-odd people who sat for an hour and a half in the Littauer auditorium thought so too. They were as attentive as a pack of Freshmen sitting down for the first time in History...
...budget for 50 campers and 20-odd staff members for six weeks is $8000. The N.S.A. groups hope to exceed that figure in money and gifts of supplies to carry on for eight weeks, doubling the number of campers in two tour-week periods...