Word: odd
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...task of gathering many of the items and tracking down the accuracy of the section falls to reporter-researcher David Ellis. Known to colleagues as "Mr. Insider," Ellis has a keen ear for odd information and irreverent observation and is a storehouse of facts about the famous and infamous. He fondly recalls, for example, that Jimi Hendrix had a disastrous turn as an opening act for the Monkees in 1967. As comfortable with sports trivia as he is with political arcana, Ellis considers 1972 a noteworthy year because a New York Yankee (Rich McKinney) made four errors in one game...
...quit as chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration because of weariness with bureaucratic wars, among other reasons. For a man who values his independence, though, he made an odd choice. His new boss: George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees...
...complete perfect example of what they're doing when they take away assets from people. They came out in a midnight raid. They brought photographers, they brought the media, the police, the FBI. They raided that hotel, took it over, tacked termination notices on the doors of some 30-odd employees, including the general manager, at 1:30 in the morning. What in the hell do you think you're dealing with...
Survivors of a genocidal war, Cambodians carry traumatic psychological burdens. Sometimes it seems as if the war has quite literally followed them across the sea. In the municipal cemetery in Stockton, Calif., a few graves are marked by odd, poignant gifts: plastic dolls, balloons, soft-drink cans, plates of fruit, piles of pennies. They are the offerings of bereaved Cambodian parents to the spirits of four children who were murdered in last year's rampage by a mentally deranged drifter at the city's Cleveland elementary school. Though Stockton police maintain that the episode was not racially motivated, the Indochinese...
That Landes saw no need to distinguish between today and 1931 when posing his jejune question, was not only an odd omission for an historian, but highly revealing of what is so hopelessly wrong with his, and Social Studies', approach to social thought...