Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growls Britain's Stirling Moss. "It's not a race but a circus." Three hundred thousand spectators flock to Le Mans, spend more than $1,000,000 on other amusements as the sports cars roar over public roads through the 24-hour grind. They roam through 500-odd fair stands, quaff more than 100,000 liters of wine, beer and soft drinks, watch professional wrestling matches just 50 yards from the track, ogle strippers and snake dancers, cram all-night dance halls and, when they run down, catch a few winks in 20,000 sleeping tents booked...
Pastor Smith views the resulting friction as threatening "the unity of Baptists on this continent more seriously than the Civil War." And he blames the cold uncharity of Northern Baptists for the situation in the first place. The 800,000-odd Southern Baptists who have moved north, he said, have not felt that they were wanted in the churches where they have gone. "They are simple people to whom forms and ceremonies are as strange as a foreign tongue, but they love the Lord. Have you been willing to gather with them in their home or perhaps in a crude...
...drive to make good. For them, Bach's first aim was finding a fine camera: "In those days, it was like buying a diamond." Often Bach lent a boy the down payment out of his own pocket, persuaded a camera store to give him credit, found him odd jobs to keep up the payments. With a precision instrument in his palms, a boy's confidence soared and soared. And Bach carried through by getting his boys jobs on newspapers-on condition that they help future graduates, however high they rose...
...famed Winchell legwork has slackened to an amble. His Manhattan jungle prowls are intermittent now; he prefers to let his 40-odd faithful squad of Broadway volunteers pump up the bulk of the gossip. When he does walk abroad, he likes to visit the scenes of old triumphs: "This is where I got Lepke." He is often alone-an isolation the big game he once stalked is pleased not to invade. He was seen alone recently at Rashomon, at the Louis Prima-Keely Smith opening at the Copacabana, and the other night he sat peaceably at Sardi...
...county supervisors - who may be imitated by other arch-segregationist Virginia communities - said they did not act last week "in defiance of any law or of any court." Legally, they may be right: the schools under court order to integrate will not exist. Morally, their position had an odd sound: "Above all, we do not act with hostility toward the Negro people of Prince Edward County." The Richmond Times-Dispatch (circ. 134,360) cheered: "Your firm determination not to have mixed schools in your county is understood and supported throughout Virginia. Do not let yourselves be pushed around. Continue...