Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University has told the service that it must operate on a buddy system, so that no students are ever made vulnerable by working alone. "If there is an odd number on any given night we either send someone home or try to get another volunteer, because you need groups of two to escort as well as two people here at home base at all times," says Bell...
History has played few tricks with as many odd twists and turns as the U.S.'s imperial adventure in the Philippines. In his first book since Vietnam: A History, journalist and historian Stanley Karnow chronicles 90 years of the U.S.'s relationship with its former colony with a keen eye for such incongruities. Beginning with a penetrating look at 300 years of cruel Spanish rule in the islands, Karnow sketches a history suffused with politics both Machiavellian and messianic: from Commodore George Dewey's whipping the Spaniards at Manila Bay in 1898 and America's later subversion of Emilio Aguinaldo...
...fence by the Twins' batting cages to watch players, just a few feet away, groove their swings against automatic pitching machines. American League leading hitter Kirby Puckett (.356) whacked a few dozen balls and then wandered over to the fence to sign his name on caps, baseballs and odd pieces of paper. Puckett spends an hour or so a day signing baseball cards mailed to him by fans and sending them back in postpaid envelopes. He was joined by Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola, who pitched a 24-7 season last year. The chain link fence is some eight...
...costumes are pretty. In one nice touch, when Hilarion, Cyril and Florian crossdress, their ruffles match the gowns of their love interests. Something, however, went wrong with the choreography. Virtually all of the female chorus members move stiffly, as if they can only bend at the waist. They look odd and distract attention from the main action...
...Sports information isn't always easy, with the long and odd hours and days you work," Cicero admitted. "I didn't know coming in four years ago that the people--the coaches, athletes and everyone I'm involved with--would be so good. I never had a negative experience with any group...