Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately Brady does not always adequately make the connection between Boswell's personality and his surroundings. We don't get too much of an idea of what Boswell's Edinburgh or London were like, an odd characteristic given Brady's argument that London played a significant role in determining Boswell's mood. And the little bit of London that we do see finds Brady slipping into the same trap that misleads all too many 18th century scholars. London may have had many sordid aspects, the extensive prostitution as an example, but there was also much beauty to the city...
...even while hoping that their daughters would someday realize their dreams. My mother did not speak to the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, but the brief moment of contact had left a lasting impression in her mind such that she was able to recollect the entire episode to me twenty odd years later, in a voice filled with admiration and pride...
After doing odd jobs at first, Marino Sik worked for the state highway department for twelve years. In 1971, with so much traffic passing their door every day, he and Carol started a highway business that included a grocery, Laundromat and showers. They sold it in 1977, tired of working 18-hour days. A few months later, just as they were finishing their new three-bedroom house, they again got wanderlust. With their daughter and the two boys who had been born in Alaska, they moved to Las Vegas, where Marino ran a gas station. "We wanted to show...
...half a dozen odd ways, time itself became a player in the campaign: time as past, time as future, time as duration, time as age. Reagan's 73 years was a factor against him. The nastier comics referred to it as "the drool factor." His mind wandered, some said, and he got the facts wrong. In splendidly backhanded defense, Reagan supporters said it was not age: Reagan has always been sloppy with the facts. During the mid-'60s, Americans sometimes supported Lyndon Johnson's actions in Viet Nam by saying, "Well, the President has more information than...
...race courses are flat, lefthanded, about a mile around and usually dirt," notes Cauthen. In England, "they are just where they laid them out 200 years ago. If there was a hump or a bump there, it just went with it." Some tracks go uphill, some down, others have odd turns or unusually long straightaways. During his first year, like a golfer studying a new course, he trudged around every track, memorizing each idiosyncrasy...