Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hunger in America for a president who serves eight years." On at least one occasion, Brokaw harkened back to former NBC newsman David Brinkley, now with ABC News. In 1980, Brinkley surveyed the giant NBC map--colored Reagan blue--and labelled it "a suburban swimming pool." It's odd to see Brokaw so drained that he must rely on a former colleague's quip...
...odd students-mostly members of the American Indian, Asian, Black, and Hispanic student groups that organized the event-walked in a circle, carrying placards and chanting, a crowd of two dozen students and a few administrators gathered to watch...
...Cleveland, then drive to Florida for two improbable plot twists. There are only 67 shots, each separated from the next by a few seconds of blackness, and three funny bits. Artfully done, with offhand references to directors ranging from Byron Haskin to Yasujiro Ozu, Stranger Than Paradise has the odd odor of something left too long behind Aunt Bela's chintz couch. Yet it has been extravagantly praised and is a box-office success in its Manhattan debut. Rarely has a movie so fetid been so feted...
...MEXICO'S politics, to the uninitiated observer, are odd, even contradictory. The state has a heavy population of national minorities, with American Indians and Mexican-Americans logging in at 7 and 33 percent respectively. The state is also the country's seventh poorest, with 17.4 percent of its residents living below the poverty line. One would expect a heavy liberal bias among the state's elected officials...
...this is very odd, though, given that it is only two years since the governor took office after campaigning vigorously on a liberal platform, letting the public know that he would play the fitting role as the nation's only Hispanic governor if elected. It was Anaya too who came close to upsetting Domenici himself in 1978. The Pratt campaign, moreover, claims their issues polls of New Mexico voters show them more closely aligned to Anaya and Pratt...