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Word: oddness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even many Catholics are ignorant of the papal biography and doctrinal bent. In a country where abortion ends roughly 40% of all pregnancies and copulation begins in early adolescence, Cubans will be shocked by John Paul II's stern views on sex. His reverence for the family will seem odd in a society where illegitimacy is common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash Of Faiths | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...telephone taps that he hoped would tie King to communist conspiracies. Disappointed with the results, the nation's official blackmailer then bugged the Washington hotel room where King was overheard having noisy extramarital sex. "King is a 'tom cat' with obsessive, degenerate sexual urges," gloated Hoover. It is an odd comment coming from a man whose own unconventional private life was one of the FBI's top secrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eyes Still On The Prize | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...real agenda of proud adoptive papas Jon Holden and Michael Galluccio is to provide two-year-old Adam with a loving home--exactly what the dedicated couple have been doing as foster parents since Adam was a cocaine-addicted infant. What could be more Christian than that? How odd that in 1997 the religious right insists that the Ozzie and Harriet family of the 1950s is the only viable one. SCOTT SEOMIN Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 26, 1998 | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...Crimson is an odd mix of blood, sweat and tears ... and Bill Gates...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Those Who Can't, Usually Do By Five : Putting The Paper, Yourself To Bed | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

...PEN/THE LIBRARY The first aired 10/2/91, the second 10/16/91. In these early episodes from the third season, fans begin to see that there is a Seinfeld universe, inhabited by odd relatives and weirdos and exaggeratos, governed by the law of unintended consequences. Good deeds not only go unrewarded, they are in fact punished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Forgetting Nothing | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

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