Word: weirdness
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...Someone not very nice once succinctly enumerated our contemporary tendencies "toward the literal, the conformist, and the amnesiac." Although the first two trends are probably guiding your dismissal of this as weird and poorly written--and much of it is--I've been dealing mainly with the last one. I can exhort you now to learn about your institution. It's not the biggest news, but go comb through the Crimson archives and find out that students picketed for hot breakfasts in the '70s, that a Funk Concert Happening did it in your earhole in Dunster a decade...
...fantasy debate over raiding Social Security for general government operations is especially weird because what is actually happening is the opposite. Both parties have agreed in principle that some part of the future government surplus should go to saving Social Security. In other words, general tax revenues will be poured into the Social Security trust fund and used to finance benefit checks...
...perfect job: you don't have to wear a tie, you can keep your own hours, and as long as you're smart, you can be as weird as you want," he added...
...Meredith Stewart kicked the corner, and basically it was just a volley that came out of the air and I chested it down," Ripmaster said. "I didn't want to let it hit the ground or else it would bounce up in some weird angle, so I just got my body over it and hit it out of the air and into the goal...
...knew what to expect. Olin's eldest granddaughter, 12-year-old Sharon Oegerle, wondered what it would be like to see her granddad with a stranger. "It was kind of weird," she said. When Sallie rented a videotape for Sharon and a girlfriend, Sharon expected they'd end up watching something babyish like Teletubbies. Instead, Mann brought them Clueless, a winner in Sharon's eyes...