Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken since his back surgery in 1973 may have brought on his bizarre conduct. Friends say that lately Mills has become addled and repetitious in conversation, and makes frequent complaints of pain in his abdomen. Mills has clearly not been himself for some months, and it was his odd behavior, as much as his recent shenanigans with Fanne Foxe, that caused the Democrats in the House to move against...
After the shootings, the council announced that it would soon convene military courts to try the remaining 150-odd members of the old order who are still imprisoned. There were reports that Haile Selassie, now 82, might be on the list. For months the council had been trying to force the stubborn old Emperor to surrender the hundreds of millions of dollars that he had hidden in Swiss bank accounts. Late last week it was reported from Addis Ababa that he had at last agreed to repatriate the funds, perhaps in return for permission to go into exile...
...take strong exception to your position that such diverse sexual life-styles as swinging (mate swapping), group sex and bisexuality can be grouped with open marriage as declining "odd" forms of experimentation. To compare the fad of swinging, which has affected at most 2% of married couples, with sexually and emotionally open, co-marital relationships is simply an overgeneralization. It is probable that singlehood with multiple sexual and love relationships, open marriage and traditional monogamy are already the major life-style choices...
...Ultra intercepts could be retransmitted. Allied field commanders had to mask privileged Ultra knowledge with conventional intelligence gathering (like air reconnaissance) to keep the enemy from suspecting odd coincidences. In 1943, when American pilots, armed with precise information from Ultra, shot down the Japanese navy's Pacific chief, Admiral Yamamoto, over the island of Bougainville, London protested to Washington about the lack of an adequate cover plan. Fortunately the Japanese were too shocked to notice...
...like to think our little community is a far sight nicer place to live than those boom villages Mr. Try-on built for The Other and Harvest Home. No weird twins up to supernatural devilment here, nosir, and no mythical human sacrifices either. Oh, we've had our odd sexual fandangos, if you get my drift, but if that's all you're after, you'll want to head on over to Peyton Place. Lots more action there...