Word: curiously
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...weeks preceding the grand opening, anticipation ran so high that night security guard Leo Shean reported staving off numerous curious undergraduates, some of whom went so far as to forge letters from President Conant authorizing them to see the site...
...tell him I saw people selling Fans Against Gordon T shirts outside the stadium and stopped to talk to them, and he's curious to hear what they had to say. All the usual stuff, I tell him. He's too pretty for NASCAR. He's from the north. He's rich. He always wins. He married a gorgeous woman. If there is a more American urge than to want everything, it's to take down the guy who gets it. "All I can do is try to earn their respect by being who I am and doing what...
...wonder at the idea of a virgin birth, of someone being "The Chosen One"? Did the idea of midichlorians make you think? Did you wonder at the hand of the Force in bringing Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn to Tatooine and "bumping into" Anakin Skywalker? Were you curious about the fall and redemption of Darth Vader...
...hardest part of the project, according to construction workers at the site, was working with the shape of the site. Shoehorning the building, which at 98,000 square feet is nearly twice the size of University Hall, into a narrow and non-square location called for a curious design...
...course every building at Harvard comes with its own share of stories to tell, from the "remove-no-stone" edict which accompanied Mrs. Widener's gift to the curious absence of doors on the Holyoke Center. And Maxwell Dworkin has its own share of peculiarities...