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Word: oddness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early Spanish explorers of the Americas once called the creature amigo del cristiano, friend of the Christian--an odd name for a lion. That beneficent image was probably owing to Native American beliefs in the beast's role in maintaining harmony between heaven and humankind. The Chickasaw called the feline "the cat of God." And for centuries, puma concolor (a.k.a. mountain lion, cougar, panther, catamount) avoided people. It was an elusive presence: a tail vanishing into the bush, a distant snarl, the rare but startling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Off My Turf | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...Kelly was having financial problems. She wore dark sunglasses and started mowing her own lawn. For a single woman, she was also dumping a lot of trash, including a good number of beer cans. And then there were the men who would knock on neighbors' doors by mistake at odd hours, asking about massages. A young woman who rented the mansion's carriage house said last week that she suspected something rotten "from the second day I lived here," and that not all the chaps who mistakenly came to her door looking for afternoon delights were well scrubbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Little Whorehouse In Jersey | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

Cowboys will be Cowboys--which is why it doesn't seem odd that the Dallas Cowboys would say guard Everett McIver got a 2-in. gash in his neck from scissors during a haircutting session because of "horseplay" with teammate MICHAEL IRVIN. What's making football fans suspicious, however, is the Cowboys' subsequent tight-lippedness over a wound that kept McIver out of action for 11 days and two exhibition games. The rumors, denied by all parties, that Irvin paid McIver to keep quiet seemed serious enough for the NFL reportedly to look into the incident; and the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 24, 1998 | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...Answer: Odd numbers = band first; even numbers = album first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 24, 1998 | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...ODD BOD SQUAD

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 17, 1998 | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

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