Word: odd
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...That odd fact sheds light on Wolfowitz's membership in a much smaller subset of Washington officials. In Bellow's novel Ravelstein, the Wolfowitz character is a brilliant former student of the book's eponymous hero, who is based on Bellow's old friend and fellow professor at the University of Chicago, the culture critic Allan Bloom. It was at Chicago, the home of Bloom and the conservative political philosopher Leo Strauss, that Wolfowitz was first exposed to the set of ideas that is now often called "neoconservative." In their belief system, neoconservatives--or neo-Reaganites, as some prefer...
...middle of the day, and I'm in a large room in a warehouse district of Queens, N.Y., where I'm beating a pair of heavy sticks against animal skins. The skins are stretched like drumheads over the seats of a couple of old chairs, a stool and the odd bed frame. These "drums" are then suspended from a timbered support that fills most of the room. As everyone knows, pounding on stuff is fun, which may explain why all around me there are people banging their own chairs and bed frames, plus one or two security guards...
...disputed goal counted, the scoring would have been Ruggiero from Botterill and freshman Julie Chu—the result of an all-Olympian odd-man rush. The play was the last time the three skated down the ice together as Harvard teammates...
...second-place finish in both the ECAC Tournament and the regular season. The Crimson’s hopes of a repeat of last year’s ECAC title ended in overtime late Saturday night when Cornell forward Sam Paolini scored the game-winning goal off an odd-man rush toward the Harvard...
...child, I remember him sitting me down at his desk and telling me, 'One day you'll have to sit in my chair. You'll have to take the decisions.' That makes a big impression on a child," recalls Ernesto, 37. The family firm, Serono, has a long and odd history: it was founded in Rome in 1906, and its best-selling product was long a fertility drug derived from the urine of postmenopausal women, including Italian nuns. Bertarelli's grandfather took it over after the war, and his father Fabio moved it to Geneva in 1977 and began developing...