Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American-made M48 tank menacingly pointing its gun from the entrance of the National Assembly. A soldier waved the bayonet of his M-16 at us when we photographed the tank and ordered us to wait for an officer, who fortunately let us go. It seemed an odd turn of events in a land where two decades ago 34,000 Americans died in what was then billed as the defense of the free world...
...odd muggers Ronnie has known during his own six-year career, about 20 are dead, ten are in jail and the rest have "retired." Ronnie too talks of quitting. He has been attending college and is now working with a storefront social agency in the East Village. Even so, it has been less than a month since Ronnie's last mugging...
...dollars worth of wine. Condon's throwaway lines have all their old weird wonder. Any one of the enormities he assigns to his characters at the rate of three a page would have fueled a complete farce. Jangling together they achieve only a certain frenzy, and give the odd impression of a man shouting desperately to avoid hearing something...
Another reason Steiner's duties are so eclectic is because, as he explained: "I tend to get involved in odd-job kinds of problems that do not clearly fall under anyone else's jurisdiction...
...concludes that most of the additional earned family income is actually eaten up by such new expenses as child care, extra clothes, transportation and lunches out. "How the Chairman of Merrill Lynch Invests" shows that he got rich, but not by following the advice that Merrill Lynch gives its odd-lot clients...