Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failure of common sense. The overkill of coverage was so immense that they literally started counting the cows twice, that when you have huge amounts of data coming in, it's very easy to lose count as simply as that. But the failure of common sense is absolutely weird in its stupidity. Any good journalist who'd been living in Moscow in the later years of Brezhnev would know that nothing worked anymore. The knight was dying inside his armor, and somehow that human perception never made itself felt in intelligence analyses...
...didn't have nostalgia, but I went through some of the trauma that the spooks had definitely been through. Was there nothing there? Maybe it was all a waste of life. Maybe I should have just been running a boy's club. I had this weird kind of sub-life in some part of my head, where I sort of kept up with events from a spy's-eye view. I was never a very good spook; I was definitely a writer who took up spying rather than a spy who took up writing...
Politicians sweating in the hot sun as they waited for Perot to appear were the latest weird scene in the marriage of convenience between the Dallas billionaire and the G.O.P. The alliance is an uneasy one. Many senior Republicans are worried that Perot's advocacy group, United We Stand America, is a powerful weapon that he may aim at them whenever it suits his purpose. Dole has warned associates that the mercurial independent is a threat to the G.O.P.'s status as the focus of opposition to Clinton. William Bennett, like Dole a possible presidential candidate in 1996, says...
...because he was involved in a sex scandal, it touched his dignity. I don't think that's fair." Says Lopez's fellow seminarian John Riccardo, 28, of Detroit: "How can you give up sex? It's such a central value in our society. What we're doing is weird; why deny it? But it's wrong to assume that because I'm doing this weird thing, I must be weird. People figure either I'm not a man because I don't want sex or I'm a superman because I can give it up. Both of these...
...cream here is something of a Russian Roulette game. Flavors and freshness can vary widely. The chocolate is on the sweet side, and yogurt is, of course, available. But the weird thing is, we've never seen anyone we know at Swensen's. From what we can tell, the primary clientele seems to be tourists who don't know about Herrell...