Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than odd that President-elect Clinton, who never misses a chance to deliver an opinion on just about anything, has remained totally silent on an issue that was prominent in each of the previous three presidential elections--the war on drugs...
...National Library. It is a splendid 19th century Moorish building that has been hammered so often, so heavily, that it is a gutted shell. In a city where more than 17,000 have been killed and 110,000 wounded since the siege began last spring, it may be odd to be disturbed by the fate of a building. But to murder a library is metaphysically sinister and wanton. What dies, of course, is more than individual life -- the stuff of the civilization, the transmission of past to future, goes up in smoke. It is not an accident...
...thrown up his hands after reading the report from his PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON WOMEN IN THE MILITARY, and may reverse its ban on women in combat cockpits before sending the recommendations on to Congress. After a yearlong, $4 million study, the 15-member commission came up with several odd objections to women serving in combat. First of all, the report argues, women might be taken as prisoners of war. Servicewomen, who are asking for assignments in which they could be killed, have already said they are willing to risk imprisonment. The commission also insisted that if both parents...
...September 1990 issue of The Atlantic, a Harvard alumnus attacked the Core: "The [Core] areas themselves are odd assemblages of specialized classes watered down for the nonspecialist...
...comes to either social change or the needs of weekly journalism. He notes, "They have been at it for 2,000 years and know the art of prevailing through patience." Moody found the Vatican an austere world, but, he adds, "every so often I was struck by the odd 17th century original oil in a hallway...