Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...music is not customary hit material. It is a little too odd and altogether too witchy for these flighty, dance-heavy times. But a first hearing of Sinead O'Connor might tempt anyone to believe that, for the moment, lite...
...popularity of these honors concentrations is a little odd. Most do not offer their own courses, forcing you to take classes in other departments, the same classes that your "regular" friends are taking. You can still graduate with honors in a regular concentration, and you are not guaranteed honors in an honors concentration...
...quit as chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration because of weariness with bureaucratic wars, among other reasons. For a man who values his independence, though, he made an odd choice. His new boss: George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees...
...complete perfect example of what they're doing when they take away assets from people. They came out in a midnight raid. They brought photographers, they brought the media, the police, the FBI. They raided that hotel, took it over, tacked termination notices on the doors of some 30-odd employees, including the general manager, at 1:30 in the morning. What in the hell do you think you're dealing with...
Survivors of a genocidal war, Cambodians carry traumatic psychological burdens. Sometimes it seems as if the war has quite literally followed them across the sea. In the municipal cemetery in Stockton, Calif., a few graves are marked by odd, poignant gifts: plastic dolls, balloons, soft-drink cans, plates of fruit, piles of pennies. They are the offerings of bereaved Cambodian parents to the spirits of four children who were murdered in last year's rampage by a mentally deranged drifter at the city's Cleveland elementary school. Though Stockton police maintain that the episode was not racially motivated, the Indochinese...