Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think I'm a rebel! I'm not, you know." And he meant it. What Sumual and his fellow officers, rebellious but at the same time eager to be loyal, wanted was an end to corruption, to inefficiency, and to Sukarno's odd persistence in wanting Communists in the government...
After months of tests, the Civil Aeronautics Administration last week stamped formal approval on the engines slated to power the first U.S. jet airliners. The power plants: Pratt & Whitney's J57 and J75, scheduled for 90% of the 250-odd jetliners on order (both Boeing...
...odd papers had been censored to preserve guided-missile secrets, but since nearly all of them were fruits of research done by high-salaried professionals paid directly or indirectly by the Air Force, they gave a good idea of what the Air Force considers worth investigating. Elaborate papers, for instance, figured how to jockey a spaceship through the atmospheres of planets other than the earth. The conclusions were rather vague because too little is known about those , atmospheres, but obviously someone in authority thought that a preliminary survey was worth paying...
...arguing the case, the attorney general did his best for Shaw's frustrated crusade. To G.B.S. "Dr. Johnson's Alphabet" of 26 letters was as obsolete as Roman numerals. What was needed, he insisted, was an alphabet large enough to cover all the language's 40-odd basic sounds. Such absurdities as having f, ff, gh and ph represent one single sound would be eliminated. Phone could be spelt with three letters, Shaw with only two. "The saving," said Shaw, "would pay for half a dozen wars, if we could find nothing better to spend...
...then poured in three great towering waves over its banks." King Joseé moved into an encampment under canvas outside the city. There were penitential processions and prayers. A few looters (including five Irishmen) were executed. The quake destroyed a great many of the city's 40-odd churches and 90 convents, as well as the "best fish market in the world." London and Hamburg sent food, building materials and money, but the principal aftereffect of the Lisbon shock was sermonizing...