Word: oddest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would intervene at some critical juncture to assist a coup attempt. The President's unwillingness to back tough talk with forceful action did not go unnoticed on Capitol Hill. No sooner had the shooting stopped in Panama than the shouting began in congressional chambers, resulting in some of the oddest political couplings in recent memory...
...oddest of the season's worthwhile offerings, or at least the hardest to explain, are William Marshall's War Machine (Mysterious Press; 220 pages; $15.95) and Reginald Hill's Underworld (Scribner's; 280 pages; $14.95). Marshall's 15 weird suspense novels are all set in either the Philippines or, as in this case, Hong Kong and feature seemingly supernatural events that turn out to have logical, if not precisely rational, origins. He has savage fun with police procedure, the culture clashes of East and West and the intrusive effects of each place's multinational colonial history. In War Machine, someone...
...make up this oddest of odd couples begin huddling in the White House Oval Office Tuesday morning, they have a strong chance of forging a new superpower relationship more hopeful than either would have dared predict after the collapse of their meeting in Reykjavik just 13 months ago. That they will accomplish their stated goal became a certainty last Tuesday, when U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resolved the last differences holding up a treaty to destroy all Soviet and U.S. missiles with ranges of 300 to 3,400 miles...
Unusual indeed. Rust's feat was one of the oddest milestones in the history of aviation. Aircraft are rarely allowed to overfly -- much less touch down in -- the tightly guarded center of Moscow, which is ringed by an antiballistic missile system that is usually described as formidable. Moreover, Rust had managed to fly unmolested from Helsinki across more than 400 miles of the most heavily guarded airspace in the world. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "This puts a hole right through one of the great myths of this place, the myth of invincibility and impenetrability." A Soviet official...
...what one person may pay another to do? It is a question that rarely arises in the world of normal commerce, even in the modern service economy (of which the contract drawn between William Stern and Mary Beth Whitehead for her to bear his baby may stand as the oddest example). Problems of conscience do not crop up when you pay someone to deliver your paper or your pizza, or to answer your phone. Something is sought, someone is compensated, and if the bargain is just, so seem the ethics...