Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guerrilla band. The Americans become the Viet Cong, the little guys, the underdogs fighting for their own land. The Soviets become the oppressive great power (the Americans in Viet Nam), the occupiers with superior forces and sinister helicopter gunships. Thus the guilt belongs with the Soviets, and an odd kind of subliminal absolution descends upon the American viewing audience...
...special kind of country music, though, an odd hybrid called urban- country, which he pretested, like any academic sociologist, with audience surveys and focus groups. "I was ridiculed by other radio professionals and country-music experts," Pittman recalls. "They thought I was nuts. They were making primal sounds. But then the ratings showed we'd become the No. 1 country-music station in America...
...tried out for the Olympic squad in 1956 but did not make it. (He did break his nose five times over the years playing water polo, and today it is still badly bent.) At San Jose, Ueberroth spent 15 hours a week in the classroom and 40 hours at odd jobs; selling women's shoes, working on a chicken farm...
When Daphne is raped in mysterious circumstances, the brutal Merrick seizes on the opportunity to arrest and torture Kumar. While Kumar languishes in jail, the story follows Merrick to another posting, and to a potential odd coupling between another Englishwoman, Sarah Layton (Geraldrne James), and an Indian, Ahmed Kasim (Derrick Branche). Around them all and around every corner hovers Count Bro-nowsky (Eric Porter). In a world where British cliques and clans are mixed with Hindu castes and classes, Bronowsky-a Russian emigre, an aristocrat and a confirmed bachelor-does not fit on any score. But neither does Merrick...
...odd thing is, Cousy says, "I shoot better now than I did 30 years ago," which he has occasion to know, for last week he started shooting again. "Of course, if I have to run five feet to get my own rebound, my touch deteriorates accordingly." At 7 o'clock in the morning, he lets himself into the Assumption College gymnasium about a quarter mile from his home in Worcester, Mass. Why Cousy has returned to the court at 56 he finds embarrassing to say, confessing to having made "a conscious decision never to play in oldtimers' games...