Word: odd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leather benches stocked. More than 600 Lords and Ladies are politically appointed and they sit alongside 92 peers whose only qualification for public office is that they inherited titles originally conferred on their ancestors back in the days when nobody saw the harm in rewarding loyalty with the odd tongue-twisting honorific and a few dozen serfs. Together with archbishops, bishops and legal chiefs, this motley group of hereditary and appointed peers is responsible for proposing, amending and revising British laws. On Wednesday, with MPs' resolve seemingly strengthened by allegations that such peerages had been dangled in front of political...
...next stage will seem more than a bit odd: the reform proposals will move from the House of Commons to the House of Lords ("the Other Place," as it is called in Westminster) and, next week, the peers will debate their own demise. Still, these turkeys are likely to vote for Christmas and, if they don't, the government is determined to push through changes without their assent...
During the four exuberant years I spent at Harvard at the start of the 1970s, I knew that Allston was there, somewhere, out beyond the football stadium. I just never went there. That seems odd, now that I’ve lived in Allston for nearly 30 years, because it’s actually a very short walk. I frequently visit the libraries, the museums, and the film archive. But from the Allston side Harvard can be a forbidding presence. The fields are fenced, the Harvard Business School turns a cold shoulder toward us, and the river houses are locked...
Walking back to my dorm with my coffee, I noticed a green pickup truck with an odd-looking trailer parked near the Yard. Closer inspection revealed that it was in fact a rolling memorial to Alex Arredondo, a Marine from Boston who died at age 20 in Najaf, Iraq in August...
...time he opened the case for the defense, teasing the court with the possibility that Libby and even Vice President Dick Cheney would testify. Wells first trotted out six prominent reporters to say they had never discussed Plame with Libby during the summer of 2003. It was an odd start, an indirect approach, implying that if Libby hadn't talked about the CIA operative with luminaries like The Washington Post's Bob Woodward, he probably hadn't mentioned her to any reporter...