Word: odd
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Years ago, before St. Henry's Roman Catholic Church was built in Pompano Beach, they had a sort of circuit-riding parish in this part of Florida. Mass was celebrated in whatever shelter could be secured, and there was one odd period when the priest said Mass at the Pompano Park Harness Raceway. Then, ten years ago, the diocese found 4½ acres along the Cypress Creek Canal, in an area of warehouses-Waterbed City is just across the street-and a little church was constructed. It has a coral pulpit...
...President was bitterly criticized by Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of the ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and a former presidential candidate. The La Palma meeting, D'Aubuisson said, was "a monologue between old buddies for the same cause: socialism." But D'Aubuisson is increasingly the odd man out in Salvadoran politics: conservative business elements in ARENA supported Duarte's initiative...
...study, by far the largest and most thorough of the 80-odd major surveys to take the psychic pulse of America since 1900, reports that during a given six-month period, one in five adults, or about 29 million people, suffers from mental problems. Only a fifth of those affected had recently sought professional help, mostly from general physicians rather than mental-health specialists...
Vinnie has better luck. Despite a preference for slim, elegant men, she be friends a retired engineer from Tulsa who tours London in Western boots, broad brim hat and plastic raincoat. The cow boy and the kiddie-lit professor make an odd couple, but they have much to offer each other. She helps him research his ancestry; he proves to be an intelligent observer and, in due course, a sensitive lover...
...odd country that likes to say such things, yet knows, and believes in, the opposite. One of America's saving graces has been its ability to live comfortably with certain forms of hypocrisy; essentially we are no different today from our forebears who gave their lusty solo king-of-the-hill yells while helping the people across town to fight a fire and demanding that the central government provide roads, protection, cheap land and transportation. Not that the country ever claimed not to be odd. Inscrutable West. Why does America prefer to wear a fiction when the facts show...