Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Games to play for Money 31 Even chances are given when a stake is placed on:.. Noir, meaning any black number that turns up. 1964 A. WYKES Gambling ix. 215 The European betting table is divided into six areas labelled pair, impair, passe, manque, rouge, and noir (even, odd, high, low, red black). 1971 P. O'NEIL-DUNNE Roulette for Millions iv. 36 You may be regarded as socially inferior in French casinos, if you do not understand the following French expressions: Rouge: Red Noir: Black Impair: Odds...
...nuns' sand mandala demonstration was a hands-on event which served as much to rally support from the 70-odd audience members for Tibet as to teach sand mandala techniques. At the end, half the audience showed solidarity with the nuns by closing their eyes in prayer...
Turning 21 in this country seems to be the secular equivalent of being bar mitzvah-ed. (Not that I have too much experience with it; I refer you to my byline.) Isn't it odd that we earn the law's permission to libate ourselves silly after we earn the right to vote for President or the risk of being tried as an adult and sent to jail for embezzling from "An Evening With Champions"? At 18, we're entrusted with legal control over and responsibility for our actions. Three years later, we're granted the legal right...
...Then she touches every third one, starting on the third gem. This pattern continues until she touches every 99th one (which is just the 99th one) and then every 100th one (which is just the 100th one). She tells you that the gems that she has touched an odd number of times will kill you and the ones that she has touched an even number of times will give you eternal life. Which gems kill...
...Bill Gates doesn't already have enough annoyances, the dark-horse challenge to Windows posed by Java, Sun Microsystems' Web-friendly programming language, is actually looking, gulp, kind of real. This week the 15,000-odd software developers who are gathered at the annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco will hear that Sun is releasing its long-promised JavaStation this Thursday. The sleek, stripped-down machine, which grabs from the networks whatever programs and files it needs, has attracted early corporate adopters like Saab and Allied Signal. How wide a market it will reach with a price tag north...