Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book also suffers from MA's--Moments of Absurdity--which one can imagine Davis hoped would somehow sound odd and appealing, but are more often disconcerting, if not downright frightening...
...didn't see a very clear message at the rally," she added. "I listened very closely, and it's a little odd that a rally about student empowerment had mainly speakers who were in their forties and fifties. I would have enjoyed more student speakers...
...first period alone, Harvard allowed five odd-man rushes against, including a two-on-none breakaway. Fortunately for the Crimson, freshman goalie Peter Zakowich came up huge in the period, allowing none of those to be converted to goals...
Fortunately, "here" is only a simulated fast-food joint, not the real thing. Jupiter and 19 classmates, all of them 55 or older, are the first students in an odd if hopeful training program begun jointly this fall by New York City's Department for the Aging and the Riese Organization, a Manhattan-based company that owns 200 chain-restaurant franchises. Designed to help the elderly rejoin today's service-oriented economy--sometimes after years of unemployment or retirement that has left them with skills applicable only to old-fashioned, well-paying jobs--the center was created with...
...their 17-month strike. The United Auto Workers leadership called it quits despite a vote by workers on Sunday rejecting a six-year contract that would limit job security, create lower wage scales for some workers, limit union activity and give the company more power to schedule odd working hours without paying overtime. Caterpillar may be in no hurry to put the strikers back to work: the company has posted record profits with a combination of strikers who crossed picket lines, temporary workers and new hires since the strike began on June...