Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pistol is the thermonuclear strike force of the manned bombers and fighter-bombers of the U.S. Air Force, backed up by the Navy's far-ranging carrier planes and submarines. Operating out of 270-odd air bases in a score of countries, this thermonuclear strike force is poised all day, every day, to deliver a 360° assault (see map) against the 37,500-mile borders of the Soviet Union, each single aircraft capable of unloading on target the mighty equivalent of all the bombs dropped by all nations during World War II. Unlike the Kremlin's-headline...
While waiting, Russell disinterestedly outlined his career. He grew up in East Cleveland's Hungarian Buckeye Road district, left school at sixteen, and played saxophone in his own jazz band. ("I called myself Jack Russell because the announcers couldn't pronounce my name.") "Doing odd jobs for East Cleveland politicians" followed and towards the end of the Depression, Russell was clearing $25,000 a year publishing four weekly throw-always at his Buckeye Press. "We had tremendous advertising," he said, "that explains the profit...
...cold war, Herter concluded, foreign aid will prove the most significant aspect of our foreign policy. What the United States does to help the twenty-odd nations that have been born since the war will be ultimately more important than a temporary disadvantage in the arms race, the son of the Undersecretary of State asserted...
...Crimson is not expected to grab any big headlines in this, the granddaddy of all cross country meets, but nonetheless it should manage to finish fairly high up among the fifty-odd college entries...
...couple of comments, made by the head coaches of the two squads shortly after the game ended, tell the essentially simple story of the contest. "Brown was good," John Yovicsin said firmly; "Harvard was hurting," Alva Kelley replied. No one of the 17,000-odd fans who saw the game is likely to dispute either of these remarks...