Word: odd
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When did you first notice this odd way that America treats sexuality...
...always knew there was an odd attitude in this country, but I didn't realize how odd until I started writing the books and getting interviewed. I had reporters ask me several times, "As a woman writing a female main character, wasn't I bothered by all of the sexual content in my books?" I replied, "If I were a man, writing a male main character, would you have a problem with the sex?" And several of them said...
Anticipate an odd case of road rage this week among hedge-fund high rollers driving home while contemplating some catastrophic losses in the market, while the iconic Porsche logo on their steering wheel stares back at them. That's because the venerated Stuttgart sports-car manufacturer on Monday inflicted losses estimated to be as high as $38 billion on hedge funds, banks and other investors who had been short-selling Volkswagen stock. It was more than just patriotic fervor that got Germans cheering this week when shares in VW shot up to more than $1,276, making...
...very odd,” she said. “No one saw it coming...
...odd Harvard students and other Cantabrigians flooded the Yard last Wednesday—all the while waiting in two-hour queues for free T-shirts and noshing on insipid apple crisp—to hear a keynote address from former Vice President Al Gore ’69, who, in the words of Drew Gilpin Faust, is “the greatest living steward of the environment...