Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...merger plan represents more of a turnaround for Iraq, a country that for 20 years has been a kind of odd-man-out in the Arab world...
...took in $24 for an eight-hour day laying sod. "It's good for you psychologically. It cleans out the cobwebs of the day-today crises you normally deal with," says Graham, 42, who literally worked his way into office by spending 100 days of his campaign at odd jobs. Among them: scrubbing bedpans, covering a police beat, hefting fertilizer and tuning Toyotas. The idea was to "get in touch with the people" (and perhaps make voters forget his roots as a millionaire South Florida cattle baron). Now that he is in the Governor's mansion, Graham still...
...come from a part of the U.S. where poverty is a way of life, and I questioned whether my being here was doing anybody any good. Living very comfortable felt odd while my parents were back home working," she added...
...brothers, but the bones clack together nicely. Peregrine is a precocious child. His younger brother Benedick is thought to be dull, because for several years he speaks in a private language only Peregrine can understand. Their father, a literary scholar and full-rigged eccentric, is never ruffled by his odd progeny; but their mother, a dithered creature who soon fades out of the scene, is confounded. At the age of six, for example, Benedick inquires, "What's a prostitute?" Peregrine knows: "A lady with high heels and a tight satin skirt and dyed hair." Replies Benedick: "Oh, like...
...author deliberately, and sometimes perversely, provides a fragmentary narrative. Huge pieces of the brothers' lives are left out, and odd bits are included: the agreeable information, for instance, that Peregrine finds an auction house where he purchases a pair of Henry James' pants...