Word: odd
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...weeks ago I found something surprising in my door box. Amidst the usual Coop advertisements and coupon specials was a blue stapled packet, a facebook for the residents of the apartment buildings at 10 and 20 DeWolfe Street. At first, the facebook struck me as odd. I had already received my House facebook, which dutifully listed me as a resident of Dunster and called my room number DeW 31—as though truncating the “olfe” from my address would make it appear as though I lived somewhere between D and F entryway. And, despite...
Thus, I wondered, quite seriously, to what kind of community this facebook was referring. To the 174-odd people who live behind Quincy, crowd the Leverett dining hall for meals and once a week wander back to six different “residential” Houses in order to check their mail? Surely, that wasn’t the case...
...Akaki Gogichaishvili, producer of 60 Minutes. But how much had really changed after the dismissals? By the time Shevardnadze had named his "new" cabinet, reappointing most ministers and replacing Targamadze with one of the former Interior Minister's deputies, the debate had shifted. Parliamentary factions realigned amid deals and odd alliances, and no one could figure out who exactly was the opposition anymore. Two points of view emerged: reform vs. status...
...acceptable” books read for school, “acceptable” books read out of school and, finally, True Romance novels. Grinning, she told her audience, “I learned many things about the seedier side of life from the printed page.” The odd combination between Atwood’s childhood literary curiosity, teenage titillation and embarrassment at contrived words and situations resurfaced in 1991’s Wilderness Tips, a collection of short stories...
...third period, Harvard was slow getting back on defense and B.C. mounted one odd-man rush after another. One instance was particularly threatening, as B.C.’s Tony Voce and A.J. Walker broke...