Word: odd
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Christopher Paolini is just like any other kid: he wrote a medieval fantasy novel full of dragons, dwarfs and Old Norse at 17, his homeschooler parents self-published it, and novelist Carl Hiaasen's young stepson read the book while fly-fishing. But then things took an odd turn. Hiaasen's publisher Knopf bought Eragon, as the book is titled, and Paolini's next two for six figures. Now Eragon is outselling four of the five Harry Potter books. Paolini, 19, may go on to college or, he says, "take a vacation." That is, if he can find a place...
...they have every odd year since 1991, those practices resulted in the national title...
Beyond the traditional trio, Milne noted that, “there’s the occasional odd surprise of a team chasing us,” such as Mercyhurst, hardly a dominant presence on the water, but one which nonetheless placed third at the 2002 Nationals...
...Hines ’04 turned to the one punk-accessory warehouse he could think of: the Pfoho open e-mail list. “Dear Pfoho,” wrote Hines, “I need you to dress me up! Essentially I need to be an odd mix of Marilyn Manson and Kid Rock, with a bindi (I can get my own bindi). If you think you have any clothing/accessories in these categories that would fit a 5’10” 150 lb male, we need to talk...
Because I was born in 1982, I grew up in the United States of America. This does not strike many people as newsworthy, but it is a development of the latter half of the 20th century and it is odd...