Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million more was forthcoming. The pace was so fast that officials often had no idea how much they had collected. In New York, where the United Jewish Appeal set up an Israel Emergency Fund, Executive Vice President Herbert Friedman jotted down a flood of big-money pledges on odd scraps of office memo paper. "This," he said, "is a hell of a way to raise millions of dollars...
...bowl of cereal comes naturally enough, since he is an ordained Church of the Brethren minister. He neither smokes nor drinks, and his favorite expletive is "Smoly Hoke!" Their emphasis being on clean living, the TV commercials he makes for Wheaties are in perfect character. So are the 80-odd speeches that Richards delivers on the banquet circuit each year, appearances liberally laced with a can-do gospel that is equal parts Norman Vincent Peale and Knute Rockne...
...student orator at Commencement exercises this morning threw aside tradition and told his own story -- how he fough his way out of a tough neighborhood in Brooklyn and a series of odd jobs into Harvard Law School...
Joseph N. Sorrentino, chosen in a University-wide competition to give one of the English parts at the ceremony, said that, a gang fighter and the son of a street sweeper, he had flunked out of high school and taken a series of odd jobs from office boy to bleach factory worker...
...little man does not count for much in the stock market any more. The "odd-lotters," as Wall Street refers to customers who deal in 99 shares or less in a transaction, represent only about 6% of an average day's trading on the New York Stock Exchange...