Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back at his study at 2:30, Franks may find an official from one of his 20-odd consular offices waiting to report. The procession continues through the afternoon. As his day's work ends, Lady Franks may come in with a hostess problem: Would champagne for the visiting British bishops be too ostentatious? Sir Oliver thinks...
Staffers on Haiti's 50-odd newspapers like to quote Petrarch and Thucydides, compose sonnets and write essays on existentialism, but they rarely get around to covering the news. When they do, their reports are usually sketchy, partisan, filled with slander, vituperation and undocumented sensation...
...Berea, Ohio. Odom's round-the-world flight in April 1947 (78 hrs. 55 min.) broke Howard Hughes's record; his solo global trip four months later in a converted A26 bomber (73 hrs. 5 min.) shattered Wiley Post's old solo mark; his 5,000-odd-mi. hop in 36 hours from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J. last March set a new light-plane record...
...prison workshop, a dumpy figure wearing an expression of near-senile rumination and apparently having the time of his life. His mother (Margaret Wycherly) is a fierce, puritanical type who pampers her son with his favorite strawberries and treats federal agents as though they were bureaucratic busybodies. Another odd creation is the restlessly affectionate gun moll (Virginia Mayo), a swirly blonde with a complicated mobile technique for kissing, getting out of bed and looking in the mirror...
...early tribes has now come to light in Wyoming. In 1939 Jimmy Allen, sheet-metal worker and amateur archeologist of Cody, found an arrowhead near a creek bank. He made a note of the place, but did not return until the summer of last year, when he found an odd-looking bone sticking out of the dry dirt. He confided in Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen, Princeton professor of paleontology, who was deep in some digging of his own at Polecat Bench a few miles away. The professor was delighted: old bones associated with arrowheads are glad tidings for diggers...