Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about four years ago, who was returning to Europe and could not afford shipping costs. It is a 1978 Vespa Piaggio, 100cc motor, Evergreen in colour, on which I have never had an accident and for which, as far as I can tell, I have never received shit (the odd envious snigger aside...
Clearly, there is a general appreciation for this sort of reversal of fortune; the urge to root for the underdog and against the favorite is a quintessentially human one which extends back to and probably even predates the story of David and Goliath. Still, it is worth examining the odd equalizing urge to hope not only that the little guy makes good in the end, but also that the big guy (i.e. Microsoft) suffers some slings and arrows along...
...think it would be particularly odd for higher education...to underwrite network implementations in education," Kinchla says...
...occurs between the hours of 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.--as do many teenage pregnancies, I'd wager--programs to keep kids occupied after school have been drastically cut. Whether we like it or not, two-thirds of women with children under six work outside the home. What an odd society it is that requires more training and licensing of the person who cuts your hair than the person to whom you entrust your most precious possession...
...Dunster residents vote at the Corporal Burns Playground on Banks St.; those living on Walker St. with street numbers under 90, or on the even numbered side of Shepard St., vote at the Harvard Epworth Church; and those on Walker St. with street number over 90 or on the odd numbered side of Shepard St. vote at the Peabody School on Linnaean...