Word: odd
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With such a lead it seemed odd that Yale Coach Maggie Muldoon would expend enough energy to be called for a technical foul. She needn't have worried since the Cantabs were missing free throws almost as regularly as field goals...
...deadlier in combat? The Sidewinder, easily. During the Viet Nam War, Sidewinders shot down their target 24% of the time, Sparrows only 8%. Improvements to both missiles do not seem to have changed their batting averages. Israeli officials have told Americans that Sidewinders killed far more of the 80-odd Arab jets downed over Lebanon last year than Sparrows did. One reason: most aerial duels are fought at less than the Sparrow's minimum effective range (which is secret). In a close-range dogfight, the Sparrow's great speed often causes it to zip right past an enemy...
Exactly as reported in the Boston Globe Feb. 19, Walker struck and signed an odd pact with the New Jersey Generals, the U.S.F.L. franchise handiest to Madison Avenue. The deal carried an oral escape clause he exercised the next morning, the same day he told a press assembly, "I didn't sign anything...
Doesn't it seem odd that the faculty would go to the trouble of creating a Core curriculum if all it wanted to do was pass off departmental courses as general education? Surely it could have simply required that students sample a fixed number of departmental offerings outside of their fields of concentration. But the faculty rejected this alternative precisely became a majority believed that Core courses should have pedagogical aims different from those of departmental courses...
...Blacks in America, history is an odd sort of thing. After spending 400 years surviving a non-stop onslaught of enslavement, lynching, torture, illegal imprisonment and a host of other crimes whose magnitude and variety are nearly impossible even to catalogue--after all that, the historical record still gets twisted, edited and ignored by far too many people...