Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...write by hammering and screaming at him until he got it. Every afternoon. None of us wanted to be in the house. But Daniel did learn, and it's made a big difference in his life. It gave him freedom. My father always thought I was a little odd. He never chose to see me perform -- except on Johnny Carson. He said I looked like a loose woman. My mother, on the other hand, thought I could do no wrong. One night she sneaked out to see The Rose, and she thought it was wonderful. She died the next year...
...YOUR BEST BEHAVIOR whenever a comedian's nearby, because if you do anything stupid, silly or even just a little bit odd, he'll put it in his act in a way that makes you look particularly foolish. And then everyone will find out what an idiot you really...
...walking to another enk'ang to see his girlfriend. (The visitor savored the idea of a witch doctor going to pick up his girlfriend for a date.) The lion stalked and menaced him for a long distance, the laibon jabbing with his spear, the lion never quite attacking. Odd...
Near the end, Margery meets her friend Johnson and her enemy Disney in an Orlando drugstore, and they all have lunch: "It was an odd coincidence, she realized, that she and Walt Disney and Howard Johnson were human beings." It will not seem odd to readers of The Propheteers that legends can live and breathe in a gentle fable as fabulous as the truth...
...days roaming the streets of Moscow trying to formulate some kind of plan. For two days straight I sat at a corner table and ran up a tab at Boris' House of Borscht. Finally, delirious from lack of sleep and too much beet soup, I was struck by an odd yet wonderful idea: to manipulate the minds of the TV viewing public by means of devious politically-oriented programming...