Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Partly it is the odd nature of the Marines' mission that angers the Meurers, and that apparently galled Ronald. Until he went to Beirut, according to his mother, "he was gung-ho. He was all Marine." Explains his sister Robin: "He'd always felt like he had to prove himself, and he thought if he could make it in the Marines, he would. He just wanted his family to be proud of him." But when he returned to the States on leave this summer, his mother says, "he didn't want to go back. He said...
...your favorite coming-of-age clichés. These teen-agers are good-looking kids with big dreams and a bright line of patter. The coach carries on like a sensitive drill sergeant, psyching his team into a football frenzy by using curses, inspirational locker-room speeches and the odd face-mask violation. Michael Chapman, who graduated to the director's chair with this film after making his name as the cinematographer of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Personal Best, brings a virginal intensity to each hoary plot device. He hardly gives his audience time to realize that...
...meets on a train--when Kunen never establishes what the point is. He once tries explaining things to a client with a story observing one of those great truths the Kunens of this world always observe, "everyone likes a story." His use of evidence crosses the realm from the odd into the truly bizarre. Key legal points and statistics are attributed to private conversations, but the word "motherfucker" gets the lengthy note. "For an interesting discussion of the psychological implications of the expression 'motherfucker' (and comparable insults in sixty-six languages) see Edgar A. Gregerson, "Sexual Linguistics," Annals New York...
...said yesterday that he decided to speak at his first IOP forum because "It would have seemed odd for the NCAA president to come to Harvard and for me who has been involved in this not to show...
...attacking these sorts of problems, the scholar has almost never taken a "survey" approach like many scholars in the field, as attested by Sevcenko himself and his colleagues. "What's odd is that he covers a vast range of material, and he almost always comes at it from a particular source," says Constable...