Word: odd
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...catch waves. Liava'a laughs this off, but without diverting his gaze from the breakers he says happily, "I have all the time I need now." There is no lack of obsessive surfers in the world. What's unusual about Liava'a is his nationality. Save for the odd wave-chasing tourist, surfing vanished from Tonga nearly two centuries ago. Liava'a is among a group of locals who've discovered its peculiar challenges and joys, unknown to generations of Tongans before them...
...until our second child is scheduled to arrive, my husband and I swallowed our pride, plundered our savings and joined the much ridiculed ranks of minivan owners. It had to be done. Neither of our old vehicles had what it takes to handle two car seats, two parents, the odd grandparent and the sheer tonnage of baby paraphernalia required for even quick trips to the grocery. Still, it took multiple visits to the dealership before I came to terms with the sociological enormity of what we were about to do. In America, you are what you drive. And as everyone...
...mankind's destructive capacities. "In an instant, without warning, the present had become the unthinkable future," TIME wrote one week after the dropping of the bomb. And yet the very memory of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of cities being reduced to rubble in an instant, provided an odd hope that such terror would never be allowed to happen again. After Hiroshima, the U.S. and the Soviet Union built thousands of nuclear devices, and the threat of nuclear war kept a political and ideological contest within bounds. Buried in silos in the wheat fields of North Dakota, tucked into...
...great sea that some call Red Sox Nation. I?ve been to only one game in Fenway, that glorious first one. But I?ve found myself in this other situation that has delivered to me serendipitous opportunities of communion with the faithful. It?s been interesting-sometimes funny, sometimes odd (the ghost of Joe Cronin!), always-to me, at least-interesting...
...time to focus. I?m glad I?ve got no more readings scheduled in the next little while; it feels odd recounting Game Seven yet again, when I know the team is, even then, out on some American ballfield, losing. Blowing a lead in the seventh. Giving up a walk-off in the ninth...