Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...odd creature this blob, an amoeboid that has taken on a new shape that belies its original form. Defense contractors, businessmen, and the wealthy now mold its front, while minority groups, unions, the poor and others have been squished into the background. Money, bureaucracy, and connections make up its trident...
They would not have seemed out of place at a supermarket check-out counter or standing in line to see a movie. They could have come together by chance just about anywhere in the U.S. Nothing odd here, in this assemblage of sexes and ethnic strains and religions, except maybe the extraordinary American experiment in equality inching forward, for the nation and the world to see, and being taken largely for granted...
...other planets. The spacecraft raised even more questions about Uranus when it discovered that the planet has a magnetic field about as strong as earth's but topsy-turvy by terrestrial standards, with the north magnetic pole displaced by 55 degrees from the south geographic pole. The odd arrangement led scientists to speculate that Voyager had caught the magnetic field in the process of reversing its polarity, a phenomenon that has occurred often on earth, most recently about 700,000 years...
...ODD way it is difficult to argue that student government at Harvard should be political. How do you argue that cats should have fur or dogs should bark? They simply do. What on earth is an apolitical, elective, legislative assembly? The Undergraduate Council has, and inevitably will have, a political role at Harvard. Arguments that it should not are just poor excuses for ignoring student concerns...
Four Quaker starters, meanwhile, reached double figures--and the odd man out, guard John Wilson, had nine assists to go with his six points...