Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard really struggled early with its defensive coverage, and the forwards did not recover efficiently. UNH took full advantage, turning up the heat at the end of the first period with several odd-man rushes...
...people would all be muttering, going, "there's such and such, she gave her whole life to her mother, but the mother, she always preferred the boys. Keelin at the beginning of the book is very comfortable. She's leading a sort of asexual existence just having her odd joint sitting on the windowsill. She's solitary, and she's set to sit there and teach in the school she went to as a kid and just take care of her mother. And the mother loves Aisling far more. I don’t want to give away the book...
...reveal the same sorts of things that other people do, they see you as odd," Boone said. "They need to connect with the normalcy of your existence. You need to appear as a whole person...
While most of the 20-odd dogs who congreate on the Leverett Path belong to neighborhood residents who have no affiliation with Harvard, Quincy and Leverrett House pets have been known to mingle with the common canines. Shooting the shit--while taking care not to step in the same--their masters have also come to know each other. Conversation's easy when everyone has a four- legged ice-breaker. "You usually know the dog's name before you learn the owner's says Cicre's owner who later introduced herself as Eve Porter...
...population of New York City is 7 million--that is, absent the horde of literary characters who hover in odd corners of museums, frolic in the parks, stroll ordinary streets and make the city a warm and friendly place for a well-read youngster. "Seeing real places that are associated with books makes stories come alive," says Judy Zuckerman, a children's-books specialist at the New York Public Library, "and visiting something kids have read about adds a personal dimension to a trip...