Word: curious
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They are the ghosts of particle physics, so tiny and elusive that a billion could pass through a bar of lead without hitting anything en route. Traveling at the speed of light, neutrinos carry no charge and apparently no mass. Even after they were detected in 1956, they remained curious, spectral bits of energy. As one of the scientists who discovered them, Frederick Reines, explains, they seemed to have "no frills and no complications...
Such a nice boy he was in Breaking Away, even if he did have that curious craze about speaking Italian and that frenetic fancy for bicycling down the highway behind a truckload of Cinzano. That's nothing compared with Actor Dennis Christopher's latest role. In Fade to Black, Christopher is a psychotic who works in a Hollywood film warehouse and gets his jollies by disguising himself as famous movie bad guys and bumping people off. While emulating Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death, he pushes an aunt down a flight of stairs. As James Cagney in White...
Relations between Iraq and Iran have been deteriorating ever since the Iranian revolution brought Khomeini to power last year. One of the more curious aspects of the tensions is that Khomeini spent 13 years in exile in Iraq, preparing for the uprising that eventually ousted his enemy, the Shah. But in 1978, apparently as part of a continuing effort to improve its often tempestuous relations with the Shah, Iraq's government asked Khomeini to leave the country, thereby obliging him to spend the last four months of his exile in France. Khomeini has neither forgotten nor forgiven that insult...
...could complain of your neglecting the Ezera larceny case: on April 4 alone, you gave it 106 lines of news and 225 lines of editorial and on April you returned to the charge. Both news and editorial were written by the reporter-a curious procedure and one that involved much rehashing of the material. I presume that the breathless quality of Ms. Russell's prose--with its "parody" of justice, its hushed courtroom and bursts of applause and rounds of chuckles, its tear-stained mother and then the man "wearing a grieved face"--can be attributed to haste and high...
Williams added that neo-conservatism had a curious affinity to Stalinism because they both imply that the individual should be subjected to the economic system and economic...