Word: odd
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Quemoy still has its few moments of actual warfare, though nothing like the 175,000 rounds of shells that came pounding in during one two-day period in 1960. According to a Nationalist officer, artillery duels are confined to odd-numbered nights, and they usually involve only about 40 or 50 symbolic rounds, which explode in sparsely populated areas and cause little damage. On one such night in Quemoy City, however, the showing of a propaganda film on the island's impregnable defenses was interrupted by three artillery shells that went off right outside the building. Quemoy...
...odd enough that at the moment the commonwealth has a Republican Governor, an Independent Lieutenant Governor, and a Democratic attorney general. But consider that when voters go to the polls this November, they will elect as Governor one of two well-known, longtime Democrats-neither of whom is running as a Democrat. Two weeks ago one was given the Republican nomination and the other elected to run as an Independent. Byrd's once invincible Democratic Party gave up and will field no candidate for the office...
...painter. Since Ned is the sort of painter who celebrates sunsets, covered bridges and barns, the Constantines decide to move to the source of supply. They chance on the tiny, lost village of Cornwall Coombe, a New England hamlet that, except for electricity, martinis and the odd Oldsmobile, seems stuck in the early 19th century. The farmers there avoid newfangled machines and methods, and the rhythmic planting, growth and harvest of the corn crop through the turning seasons rules village life...
Teakbird, Bolero and Walloon, seen here scudding across Puget Sound, are all from the board of Veteran Designer William Garden. A boat by Bill Garden, says one of his admirers, "always seems to fit into the tradition of the Grand Banks fishing schooner and the opium clipper." Odd combination? Not for the offshore sailors to whom Garden has given long-keeled boats that are easy on the helm. Not on ocean passages, when a snug Garden rig teaches the enjoyment of what the designer calls "chasing off before the wind under boisterous conditions...
...suspected that he killed himself, on a crank's political pre text, because his creative powers were failing. Western readers will have to wait for the rest of the tetralogy to make a judgment. The first two works are sometimes stunningly good; yet in both there is an odd moral frigidity, a special chill evident in his earlier works as well. For all his gifts, Mishima seems to have written too often with the dead pan menace of the kendo expert he was - a tense restraint broken only by a violence that is curiously narcissistic...