Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coroner and found him in a low frame of mind. "It was a sin and a shame," he said, "to turn that money over to the State Treasury. What I could have done with $138.67! (I noticed he made a fair split, but collared one of the two odd cents.) Well, it's gone now--damn the luck! I never did trust that flatfoot...
Peter: Initially Paul found the poetry and as usual I said 'Right, you're crazy,' and 'We haven't got a show.' We each took the 300-odd poems and agreed we would pick...
There is, too, the fact of Walter Mondale. Admirable as he is, Mondale did not run an effective campaign. He began his quest for the White House on the odd note of promising to raise taxes. Near the end of his campaign, he drove home differences of principle with the Republicans, but the passion came too late. In terms of abstractions, it may be said that Mondale represented the past of Big Government, now seen as less appealing than the past of free enterprise represented by Reagan. But most people recognize such polarities as the stuff of speeches; realism always...
...citizens jump up and down in town halls and public squares, and shout themselves hoarse for candidates they can barely hear, saying things they all have heard before. Go get 'im, Fritz! Four more years! Maybe they're cheering the system. Maybe they're cheering themselves. Odd to think that at the center of the orgy lies the center of the country, the nation's history and reason for being resuscitated and kept alive in the tooting of a horn. On the following pages observe several revelers and their leaders in the midst of a process...
According to records of the California department of fish and game, over the past 30-odd years there have never been so many shark assaults off the U.S. in such quick succession. Between 1950 and 1955, sharks attacked a total of three people in the U.S. Pacific; in the past four years that number has quadrupled. The center of the danger area runs from Monterey Bay to Point Reyes, Calif. This 90mile stretch of coastline together with the Farallon Islands to the west forms a perilous wedge now called the Red Triangle. John McCosker, director of the Steinhart Aquarium...