Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comment? It produced a ripples of laughter from the 50-odd members of the crowd, glad for the chance of a momentary respite in the tension...
...follow young Pavlik's example, but there are more than enough concerned citizens ready to play the role of stukachi, or stool pigeons. An elderly pensioner with time on her hands could consider it a patriotic duty to report any foreign-looking types who visit her apartment building at odd hours. In a society where many people routinely break laws against black-market activities just to get by, everyone is vulnerable to denunciation by a neighbor or friend who has his own sins to hide...
...FIRST HOUR of Harvard's September orientation for transfer students, the announcement that on-campus housing would never become available, regardless of the circumstances, sent a perceptible shock wave through the 50-odd students sitting expectantly in a classroom on the second floor of Harvard Hall. It was an unusual welcome to the College...
...still have a few seconds left. Time becomes stretched to the outermost limits. To your right you see the mahogany floor divider that separates four brown church-type pews from the rest of the room. They look odd in this beige Zen-like chamber. There is another door at the back through which the witnesses arrive and sit in the pews. You stare up at two groups of fluorescent lights on the ceiling. They are on. The paint on the ceiling is peeling...
...uneasiness with capital punishment has led this nation of tinkerers to an odd inventiveness. Elsewhere in the world where executions are still regularly carried out-among industrialized nations, only Japan, South Africa and the Soviet Union-the bullet and the noose are used exclusively. Yet in the U.S., only half a dozen states call for old-fashioned firing squads or hangings. The electric chair killed quickly and, it was thought, painlessly. It seemed, in any case, up to date, civilized. (This progressive image is somewhat at odds with the testimony of Willie Francis, 17, who survived a sublethal shock...