Word: oddly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...France together against you in Lebanon." He laughed. "It's not me, actually," he said, then added ruefully, "but that's what people think." His tone was easy, conversational. He did not bellow or lecture, not even when he attempted to dispense patently ridiculous propaganda. But it was an odd conversation nonetheless, reflecting the jittery uncertainty of the Syrian regime in the face of massive international pressure. On Lebanon, Assad clearly indicated that a political decision had been made to withdraw Syria's troops and the only questions now were "technical": how much time it would take to move heavy...
...will note that I find it odd that it is uncontroversial to say that men tend to be taller than women or that men and women have different brain structures and compositions, but that Summers’s assertions caused as much of a firestorm as they...
...netminder faced several odd-man rushes in the second frame, each the result of an uncharacteristic mistake by his defensive corps...
With chic cheek-bones, a jawline that could slice bologna and a warm voice that could go shrill in odd moments, Carole Lombard was perfect casting for this 1934 romp, directed by Howard Hawks, about a Broadway director (John Barrymore in all his spuming comic majesty) and the actress who was his protege and is now his career lifeline. The film was a career maker for Lombard, who died in a plane crash...
...Russians did not let the matter drop. Later, during the leaders' joint press conference, one of the questioners Putin called on asked Bush about the very same firings, a coincidence the White House assumed had been orchestrated. The odd episode reinforced the Administration's view that Putin's impressions of America are often based on urban myths fed to him by ill-informed aides. (At a past summit, according to Administration aides, Putin asked Bush whether it was true that chicken producers split their production into plants that serve the U.S. and lower-quality ones that process substandard chicken...