Word: odd
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...least of it. The President continued to raise tons of money. Congress passed a prescription-drug benefit for Medicare recipients, with the support of prominent Democrats like Ted Kennedy and Tom Daschle. Bush will campaign on this in 2004, depriving the Democrats of yet another favorite issue. What an odd turn of events: Bush is suddenly more successful at home than abroad. Saddam and Osama are still at large, but Kennedy and Daschle have surrendered. The war in Iraq is intensifying, but Washington?s beloved culture war has been defanged...
DeLay knows about nudges. He's famous for giving them--and the odd knee to the groin--but he doesn't like being on the receiving end. Increasingly, the Texas Republican feels that he and his conservative colleagues have been isolated by the Administration, despite their repeated success in passing the President's agenda. "They take the House for granted," a G.O.P. leadership aide said."This was Tom saying, 'Hey, take notice...
...Odd things happen to oddball kids who run in threes. Harry (as in Potter), Hermione and Ron endure all manner of spooky events at Hogwarts. Violet, Klaus and Sunny, better known as the Baudelaire orphans of the Lemony Snicket books, have dodged headless men and giant pinching machines...
...ODD WOMAN...
...woman. But the more senior I became, the less and less I thought of myself as a woman and the more and more I thought of myself as a scientist and a scholar and an administrator. I felt like a woman again, and it was very odd. And so having you [Shirley M. Tilghman] and [Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons] there, I no longer feel that way. And it has truly changed the dynamics...