Word: odd
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...barbeque, I was gawked at, I was cursed at, and I was threatened with physical violence. This seemed quite odd to me. I did not know most of the people in attendance and was on friendly terms with virtually everyone I did know. How, then, did well over a dozen people come to despise...
...controversy began in mid-July, when WomensWallStreet.com posted an account of the incident written by Jacobsen, a passenger on Flight 327. She detailed what she said was odd behavior of the passengers (for instance, getting up several times during the flight, going to the bathroom often, congregating in the aisle) and described the increasing concern she and her husband felt. She said the flight attendants were also frightened, so much so that they seemed too scared to confront...
...wanted to be. Speakers who must have been dying for a chance to lace into the current administration’s moral bankruptcy and pragmatic failures were reportedly told to lay off the Bush-bashing for fear of alienating those precious swingers. And so this week inhabited an odd political twilight zone: an opposition party seeking to rescue the nation midway through what seems the worst eight years of misgovernance in memory, the Dems forced themselves to put on a happy face...
...open to the public. None of the others is marked, and their precise locations are kept secret to thwart looters and vandals. In all directions as far as the eye can see, Riversleigh is piles of stone, spinifex, scraggy trees and termite mounds. Apart from local Aborigines and the odd ranger, Archer's teams are the only people who set foot on this land. So how do they know their way around? Here, rogainer Creaser more than earns his keep. "This guy," says Frank Nissen, a surveyor with Queensland Parks and Wildlife, "has the best spatial brain of anyone...
...club's 90-odd fulltime staff do seem a happy bunch - and a busy one. As many of them like to tell you, big football games (of which the M.C.G. hosts about 40 each year, as well as international and interstate cricket matches and various other events, all of which bring more than 3 million people through the turnstiles) don't simply happen. They're the culmination of meticulous preparation, about which the average fan has little idea. "A lot of them think it's a case of just flinging open the gates," says event-day office supervisor Gary Walshe...