Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coverage of the historic mission. Last week, as the shuttle glided to a pinpoint touchdown on the dusty runway at Rogers Dry Lake, Los Angeles Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate and Correspondent Joseph Kane were on hand to record the breathtaking moment. With accommodations in short supply, the self-described "odd couple" rented a 29-ft. recreational vehicle that they parked just 100 yards from NASA's press center. Cate, who has covered ten Gemini and two Apollo space missions, was not surprised by the postponement of the shuttle liftoff. Says he: "NASA has hardly ever had an on-time...
Dorofeyev noticed that something was amiss when passengers disembarking from the plane carried off bags crammed full of soap, shaving cream and shampoo. Could it be that Krasnodar was the home of the Great Unwashed? Odd, he thought since an announcement during the flight had proudly identified their destination as the home of a large soap factory. Dorofeyev set out to see for himself with a toiletry-shopping tour...
...achievement of Wilson's play not to expoit their differences for comic effect--like a heterosexual Odd Couple--but instead to show, delicately but truly, those hidden currents of sympathy between people that have nothing to do with appearances, origins or names. By the end of Talley's Folly Wilson has twisted around the commonplace and demonstrated instead that seeming opposites are often much more similar than we'd think...
...past two weeks, the ruggers have surpassed the achievements of any previous Crimson squad in the hundred-odd-year history of the sport at Harvard. For the nine ruggers who started on the team four years ago and who helped win the Eastern Championships, this year's accomplishments have been beyond their wildest dreams...
...real thing will find herself soon enough in an odd position with real life, a little exalted and, at the same time, perpetually risking compromise. Cautionary romances, like William Wyler's 1953 film Roman Holiday, have alerted us to the restrictive, hermetic and sometimes suffocating side of royal life. A princess is required to be both an ornament and an exemplar, a rarefied high-wire act that calls for a lot more skill than a good sense of balance. Everyone waits for a false step, and there are even some who will shake the wire. Diana's older...