Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...odd twist of fate, Cole wrestled his final match of the day against Warnick the Elder, who was second in the East last year with 26 wins...
...Republican Bob Martinez wanted to be re-elected Governor, he had an odd way of going about it. He infuriated taxpayers by reneging on his promise not to raise taxes. He alienated many women by trying to impose strict limits on abortion. That played into the hands of Lawton Chiles, a former three-term U.S. Senator, who surfaced after a 15-month hiatus from politics to mount a corny but believable populist bid for the state capitol...
...which players buy in for an entry fee and then risk no further money. He knew his cards, and he won some and lost some. But card sense is the lesser part of poker, which is a game of money management at its middle levels, and of character -- an odd sort of frontier monasticism might describe it -- at the very top. The author may have sensed that he was not suited to it when he hesitated to pay a $2,500 tournament buy- in because his children's school fees were...
...Harvard Police Deputy Chief Jack W. Morse to Sgt. John Francis after Francis finished photographing the 20-odd demonstrators holed up in University Hall to protest the lack of faculty in the Afro-American Studies Department...
...another odd twist for the publishing house, which is owned by S.I. Newhouse's media conglomerate. Evans, 62, was brought in to replace Joni Evans (no relation), one of New York's most high-powered book editors, who joined Random House in 1987. Her reassignment followed by just a year the ouster of the company's longtime chief executive, Robert Bernstein, who was replaced by Alberto Vitale...