Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since 71 of the names on Keverian's list are Democrats, a majority of the 130-odd member House Democratic Caucus, McGee is clearly on the defensivee in the Speakership fight. McGee, to have any chance of winning, would have to break the old tradition of nominating the Speaker within the Democratic Caucus and make a floor appeal to the tiny Republican contingent...
...sounds like an odd way to attract votes. But for Walter Mondale, this is no time for caution; if he is to win the presidency, he must come from further behind (13 to 16 points, according to three newly released national polls) than any non-incumbent ever has been able to at this stage of a campaign. So the Democratic nominee last week took the big risk of proposing tax boosts that by fiscal 1989 would raise an extra $85 billion a year from many corporations and all families earning more than $25,000 a year. He also outlined plans...
...graduate school that what there is is 50 departmental programs," McKinney says. "There is built in to this situation a tension between the departments, which rightfully believe themselves to be the determinants of the programs, and the central administration, which has a reponsibility to keep watch over these 50-odd programs," McKinney adds...
...police constable named Morton (and the unintended maiming of his father) on the farm three generations of the family share. Why the man was marked for death was not explained to Cal, and political generalities after the fact cannot rationalize the dreadful specificity of what he witnessed. For this odd boy out, the murder becomes an enigmatic, recurrent nightmare...
Even as a young woman of 27, about to earn her first fame as the author of Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), Mead seemed an odd sort of anthropologist. She was a city person, passionately attached to Manhattan, who positively disliked the country. She became claustrophobic in native huts. She had little taste for artifacts. Her passion was for collecting people. From the time she took charge of her playmates' games, Mead proved a relentless organizer of others, regardless of their sex. In college, she formed the "Ash Can Cats," her first extended family, and bound these classmates...