Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor government on the way out? That seemed a real possibility after a bizarre session of Commons last week at which Labor whips ordered their members to abstain from voting on a Labor-proposed motion-which led to a resounding 293-to-0 defeat for the government. Following that odd display of parliamentary tactics, Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher demanded a vote of no confidence, which will be taken at midweek. If the government loses, Callaghan will have no choice but to ask the Queen to dissolve the House and call for new elections within weeks...
...evidence of trouble, and if nothing had appeared in the news, panic would have developed." Says Richard Simon, formerly of the Los Angeles police: "If the truth is not good, it's better than rumors, which are generally horrible." TV Newsman Eric Sevareid noted it was an "odd irony that it was the absence of publicity that drove Khaalis to his act as much as anything. He appeared maddened by the fact that the frightful slaughter of his family several years ago received so little attention...
LAST YEAR, there were no Spiro Pavlovich jokes in the Law School review, which was odd, because just about every other Law School jokes that could be made came up in the course of the show. This year, there are no such omissions. Holmes is Where the Hark Is relies heavily on inside one-liners; even jokes that are comprehensible to outsiders (as when a Johnny Carson figure tells a class, "How angry was the crowd? As angry as the Harvard Law faculty when Jimmy Carter announced his cabinet") rely on some knowledge of the school. How inside...
...species. But through experience gained by maximum usage of the Concorde, developers of future SSTs should be able to move up the learning curve to design cleaner, quieter and more efficient supersonic planes. By banning the plane, New York would exclude itself from this pioneering process-an odd role for a city that prides itself on being a pacesetter for the world. Thus, before Concorde service at J.F.K. is ruled detrimental to the commonweal, the big bird deserves at least a chance to demonstrate-in a carefully monitored test-that it is not quite the monster its critics contend...
...cursing my mother." He beat the children whenever he felt the urge, but when he savagely attacked the mother all the children rallied around her, trying their best to protect her. As she was returning home from school one day, her attention was drawn to the sound of an odd gait. She looked up. Approaching her was an old man bearing a shoulder pole with two men's heads, one dangling from each end, still dripping blood. [Evidently they had been executed by decapitation, a common practice in warlord-dominated China.] Stunned, she turned away blindly, ran home, threw...