Word: odd
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Although the average age for Abercrombie employees is 24, the company insists that even senior VPs and executives are still expected to don the latest A&F fashions. Michael J. Skey ’03, who was recruited for a merchandising post at Abercrombie, describes the odd site of middle-aged men walking around in vintage cargo shorts and throwing around slang faster than Justin Timberlake at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. “It was disconcerting,” says Skey. “These guys were like my dad?...
Since I first set foot on this campus three and some odd years ago, I have been known as a joker. I’m the goof, the comedian, the sarcastic guy, the prankster. The Crimson, an organization to which I have devoted countless hours since freshman year, held a dinner earlier this semester to welcome the paper’s new slate of executives and part with its seniors. While many of my fellow outgoing executives were eulogized for their dedication to paper and their contribution to its content, I was reassured that my “building presence?...
...speak of the decline of libraries today seems odd,” said Kenneth E. Carpenter, former Assistant Director for Research Resources in the Harvard Library. “More information is available more readily than ever before. But ask scholars or librarians, and the response has generally been lament...
When asked by a reporter whether she had anything to say to the victim’s family, Pring said, “That’s sort of an odd question—I feel like my son was the victim...
...Camp Lejeune last week. He also visited the Coast Guard. The week before, he visited the Army; before that, the Navy. The speeches were pretty much the same: Saddam's finished, victory is assured, hurrah for our courageous troops. Cheerleading is a plausible presidential function, I suppose, but an odd thing has happened to Bush as the war has progressed. He has not grown in stature or gravitas, as wartime leaders usually do; he may have diminished. He seems imprisoned in a bleak, hortatory rhetoric of simple sentences and simpler ideas. Freedom good. Tyranny bad. We Tarzan, world Jane...