Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hilda's mother, a servant, noted something odd about the girl in July, told her mistress, who took Hilda to the doctor. Astonished, he reported that Hilda was five months pregnant. Tearfully, the mother cried: "Let God's will be done." Hilda's father, however, rushed to the police, and they arrested a 22-year-old orphaned cousin who lived with the Trujillos in their one-room shack, charged him with rape...
...That left Eddie all alone with memories of mother. He closed off the sitting room, filled with family portraits and other reminders of the dead, and the room where is mother had passed her last year. He did not bother to work the farm, supported himself with odd jobs for neighbors...
...messy, vigorous and oblique. Part of the title-Je t'aime, No. 11-A-was scrawled with grey mud against a background of black and orange bars. Beneath the letters was a bloody smear, at the point of what might be an upright brush. It did seem an odd way to say: "I love...
...economists foresee 4,000,000 by spring). The only part of the U.S. economy that has dropped far enough to be in a serious recession is the stock market. It plummeted 19% to a low of 419.79 on the Dow-Jones industrial average before bouncing back a bit. By odd contrast, Wall Street ignored the 1953-54 slump, and prices on the stock market held steady...
...them so sensible and wonderful that he never wearied of visiting them. Soon afterwards he discovered alcohol, took to it with the same enthusiasm. By the time he settled into his job as a Paris civil servant in 1864, while writing poetry on the side, Verlaine had achieved an odd condition: he embraced everything life had to offer so matter-of-factly that his intellectual friends found him rather bourgeois...