Word: odd
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...chairman of TLC Beatrice International Holdings, which has the odd distinction of being America's largest minority-owned enterprise without having any U.S. businesses, Lewis has made a habit of defying the odds. Following the death in January 1993 of her husband Reginald (Reg) Lewis--the African-American tycoon who demolished the Wall Street color line in 1987 by buying Beatrice International for $1 billion--it was widely assumed that his widow would remain secluded as majority shareholder and silent partner...
...some odd reason, you neglect to make a wage/ That's high enough to land you in this gilded age,/ You'll spend your time where gangs and crime and drugs still rage./ That's the cage they call "Offstage...
There was one odd note, though. Embedded in the man's pelvis was a spear point. It was the kind used by hunters not hundreds but many thousands of years ago. And when Chatters sent a bit of bone off to the University of California, Riverside, for radiocarbon dating, the results showed that there was indeed something special about this "settler." His bones were about 9,300 years...
...probably got a very odd look from his wife at breakfast the next morning when he suddenly blurted out, "Could it be that I heard the President discussing boxer shorts on television...
...defining dark snap or subtext, Ellen has always centered on DeGeneres and a coterie of grating, too-unkempt-for-their-age pals and hangers-on, but the cast and creative team have undergone major overhauls since the show's beginnings. The current characters have little chemistry and seem like odd, unfathomable choices to support DeGeneres. Why Ellen, a neurotic but sensible woman in her late 30s, rooms with her temperamental frat-boyish cousin Spence (Jeremy Piven) in her Los Angeles apartment is anyone's guess...