Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the land of Pilsner comes an odd new export: dehydrated beer. Brewer Jan Oliva, who co-owns a malthouse in the Czech Republic town of Bruntal, says that when you add water to his beer powder and wait 10 days, you get a cool refreshment that "looks like beer, tastes like beer and has a head too ... It is beer, and a good one at that...
...Poland and the U.S. next year. The English version is already available across Asia but is hard to find. Ninh, who is writing his next novel on the war, will receive half the $15,200 Independent prize money but little more. He still supports his wife and child with odd jobs. But, he insists he "didn't write it for money...
This chase is fascinating, although wildly implausible, but McIlvaine makes the worst of a good thing by insisting that what he reports has implications far beyond its particulars: "I would not have extended myself now, at my advanced age, if this were just the odd newspaper tale I had for you ... of aberrant family behavior. I ask you to believe -- I will prove -- that my freelance, finally, was only a reporter bringing the news, like the messenger in Elizabethan dramas ..." His story, the narrator says several times, is "far more than" the mystery of the Pemberton family...
...really odd, but sad," Griffin says. "We were never completely healthy, and we rarely performed as well as I think we could have...
...odd, ironic, and completely unpredictable, which is about how the rest of the season went for the team. Indeed, it was a year characterized not so much by consistent team performances as by sporadic, random individual performances of excellence...