Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Stuffed in odd places around home were a full share of tarnished Navy Crosses, D.F.C.s and Air Medals from World War II. But for four years everybody in VF-781 had been too busy flying in the present to bother polishing up the past. One weekend every month 36 Naval Reserve pilots would converge on the Los Alamitos (Calif.) Naval Air Station and thunder off on maneuvers in their stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland...
...Frame had a telephone call of his own to make. "I've got another chappie for you," he told a friend in the special investigation branch of army headquarters. The words meant that Sidney Frame, "the trotters' friend," had just persuaded one more of the 7,000-odd deserters still missing from the British armed services to give himself up. "Sometimes I think he's balmy to do all this," said Mrs. Frame, "but then, I suppose every man must have his hobby...
...time passed, the journeys became even harder. For when the child was small, if she stopped in the street to clap her hands, or "if, without reason, she began to dance," passersby did not think it odd. Later, they stared. "The kid is nuts," Pearl Buck once heard a woman say. "From that day I began to shield my child...
...Heirs of Colin Kelly. It was upon the reverent Stratemeyer and his Far East Air Forces that MacArthur placed the first heavy burden of U.S. operations in Korea. FEAF's 400-odd fighters, 60-odd bombers and one troop carrier group were scattered halfway across the Pacific. From bases in southern Japan, Stratemeyer sent out jet F80 Shooting Stars and F82 Twin Mustangs to strafe North Korean trucks, locomotives and armor. From Guam he called up B-29 Superfortresses to pound Seoul's Kimpo airfield...
...weeks ago, there were 250-odd Protestant and 35 to 40 Roman Catholic missionaries in Korea. By last week nearly a hundred of the Protestant missionaries had been evacuated to Japan. In Manhattan, an emergency meeting of the Korea Committee of the Foreign Missions Conferences agreed that most of the Protestant missionaries should wait out the fighting in Japan, that a few volunteers should stay in the field to do what they can for their Korean fellow churchmen...