Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honor of Marx and "in defense of the revolution." In China, a zealous textile worker went to the trouble of engraving the entire text of the Communist Manifesto (about 20,000 Chinese characters) onto an ivory block 15 mm by 15 mm by 50 mm. It was an odd way to honor the man who had urged the workers of the world to shake off their chains...
...often labeled the Old Redhead's country-boy manner a fraud: he was born in Manhattan to a mother who was a frustrated concert singer and an improvident father who was a self-styled British aristocrat. Young Arthur dropped out of high school to support the family at odd jobs. He started in radio almost by accident, as a banjo player sponsored by a birdseed company on a station in Baltimore...
...Bush himself would never have dwelt on or even considered right plucked from a greater, kindlier context. Bush's world was the greater, kindlier context. Like Samuel Johnson he knew everything worth knowing. Like Johnson, too, he was born to teach books. Few people are. It is an odd pursuit. Literary study stands at the center of modern education, but when one tries to determine what happens in the relationship among book, student and teacher, the teacher grows shadowy, eventually vanishes...
...children of the Cohen family of West Chester, Pa., operate a computerized cleaning business. Lewis and Marlene, both 25, Natalie, 23, and Morris, 15, keep watch over clients' names, schedules and creditworthiness, plus the quirks and odd needs of customers. They also inventory brooms, mops and paper towels...
...with wet or sticky hands. Mastering data-base software can also be a taxing task, especially for the neophyte. Most data-base programs are marketed for business use; they come with powerful features and inch-thick manuals. Even with the simplest software, designing an efficient data base for an odd personal need is an art that often requires hours of trial and error. Advises PFS's Gibbons: "You have to ask yourself, 'How many times am I going to access this information and in how many ways?' " Gibbons still keeps his own business contacts in a card...