Word: odd
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Even now, the odd bleeding patterns of perimenopause are often attributed to fibroid tumors (which may or may not be a factor). Because their symptoms have been poorly understood, many women have undergone unnecessary hysterectomies and D&Cs (dilatation and curettage), a procedure that scrapes away the uterine lining. Roughly 1 out of 4 U.S. women is thrown into "surgical menopause" by the removal of her uterus and ovaries instead of hitting menopause naturally...
...asserts continuity by quoting Goya and thus morosely pointing out that the disasters of war only recur. The cluster of gun barrels leveled at the weeping women comes directly out of Goya's The Third of May. They are fantasy weapons, more like ray guns than rifles. Their odd shapes, and the robotic look of the soldiers, suggest that Picasso had also been looking at American sci-fi comic strips. It isn't clear who the killers are, and the naked victims don't look at all Asian; every Marxist in France (which in 1951 meant most of the French...
...hard to imagine a human being who holds on to more odd items than Geller. Above his fireplace he has beanie caps with propellers on the top (required dress code for CS 50 teaching fellows, thanks to Geller); on his trunk lies an 8-inch plastic green locust and a roll of electric cable warning tape in Hebrew, English and Arabic. And we haven't even opened his drawers...
...difficulties soon ended, as Ben-Shachar and friends then took the courts. The Crimson players lost only two games in the five odd-seeded matches, and it quickly turned into celebration time...
From your tone, you don't seem to care about the possible negative affects your letter may have had. I was angry that so many people had your undivided attention. Your letter was rather odd, so no one just read the first line and pitched it in the trash can--they read the whole thing. My first fear was that closeted men or men unsure of their sexual identity were going to be upset or frightened by your letter...