Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advantages by breaking all the (neutrality) rules (upon the seas) . . . and then go on and gain another set of advantages through insisting, whenever it suits her, upon the strictest interpretation of the international code she has torn to pieces." He added, "It is not at all odd that His Majesty's government are getting rather tired of it. I am getting rather tired of it myself...
Linked forever by a happy accident that saw them born within a month of each other in cities only 80 miles apart, Bach and Handel make an odd couple. Handel, whose 300th birthday was last month, was the son of a Halle barber- surgeon who wanted his boy to study law. A well-traveled cosmopolitan, he settled in London, anglicized his name from Handel, and became the dominant operatic and oratorio composer of his day. When he died, a bachelor at 74, he was buried with great ceremony in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey. By contrast, Bach, whose birthday...
...with the new man, giving him the once-over. There is the former leader's widow, the first chance for a closer look at her. What codes can be deciphered in the eulogy? Which Politburo member is standing where? These funerals have been our way inside of late, our odd little knotholes to the land of deep secrets...
...said that was the best part of the job. He recalled a bank president who had never cracked a joke, a man rarely given to laughter. After the Kushner treatment, the executive did not exactly become a barrel of monkeys, but he was able to cut loose with the odd one-liner. One venom-tongued supervisor, accustomed to dressing down tardy employees, now has the habit of saying, "So glad you could make it for lunch." The message is still clear, but it is not so much a brick...
...some textbooks, a few teachers, and a bunch of kids. That was it. No classrooms, no passing periods, no lenses no flagpole Classes were held on the beach pavilion or by the seashore and the principal handled his administrative chores out of a VW buy Abundance for the 250-odd students was voluntars, and everyone--teacher and pupil went by first name Parents, faculty, and students shared responsibility for all school decisions...