Word: odd
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Creasy and Pita quickly get over the initial awkwardness of their textbook odd-couple relationship when the lovably gruff guard notices he can help the cherubic, threatened swan’s swimming technique. Washington, meanwhile, channels his forceful yet charismatic Remember The Titans performance, berating the girl until she successfully stops flinching from the sound of the race’s starting shot. Surprisingly, Scott lavishes a substantial chunk of time on the astonishingly cute friendship—a decision which makes the audience actually care when Pita is kidnapped during a shootout with unknown assailants...
...crossword puzzles could entangle the whole people for so many months. Nor it is quite queer that the faculty of an American institution of higher learning should like its own little sport. Examinations thus continue to hold full sway in the hearts of the learned clan and an odd kind of examination at that...
...Newsweek reporter Scott Johnson’s recollection of being shot at makes him, in Carlson’s words, something like a latter-day Stephen Crane. An Al Jazeera correspondent with a fastidious dedication to fairness is, somewhat jarringly, just like Felix Unger of “The Odd Couple...
...City, professional boxing offers one of the few available routes out of the hopelessness of Mindanao. For Pacquiao, boxing may have been the only way. His parents separated when he was young, and his mother, Dionisia Pacquiao, raised her six children on her paltry income from a series of odd jobs. Manny helped out by selling bread and taking in laundry, but in his spare time he would do gofer work at the local gym or pound cardboard boxes filled with clothes - his first makeshift punching bag. Wiry, tanned and talkative, 54-year-old Dionisia nowadays lives next door...
...it’s not that I don’t enjoy the newfound sunshine trickling in around springtime, or the birds chirping, or even the odd green fertilizer recently seen terrorizing the Yard. Far from it, in fact...