Word: oddest
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...made weapons turn up in the oddest corners and conflicts. Five Sherman tanks of World War II vintage were used last month when the armed forces of Uganda overthrew the government of President Milton Obote. How did they get there? Originally a U.S. contribution to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease, the tanks were later given by the Russians to the Egyptians. Israel captured them during the Six-Day War. After an overhaul, the tanks went to Uganda under an Israeli military-aid program. Next mission...
Scaling the Glass Mountain. What goes on in Barthelme's surrealistic, mad-dance little world? In the first place, it is peopled with the oddest, the most chillingly funny characters: Horace, a gourmet-policeman, whose pièce de résistance is Rock Cornish hen; Lars Bang, a coachman out of a period print who hits and runs like a Mafia mobster; and there is even the Phantom of the Opera's Friend...
...blessing to the community, if not to the individual deer. Still another law is the necessity of diversity. The more different species there are in an area, the less chance that any single type of animal or plant will proliferate and dominate the community. Even the rarest, oddest species can thus be vital to life. Variety is nature's grand tactic of survival...