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Oxymora, Group C

• calculated spontaneity
• California freeway/expressway
• California culture
• California style
• calm storm
• calm winds
• camping resort
• casual chic, used in “Calvin & Hobbes” (March 24, 1995): “A spotted tie is just the thing when you’re wearing stripes! Tigers have a natural flair for casual chic!”
• casual formality
• casual intimacy
• casual sex
• casually concerned
• cat fish
• cat proof
• cavalier concern
• Central Intelligence Agency
• centrally-planned economy
• certainly unsure
• chaotic organization
• cheap gas
• cheerful pessimist
• cheerful undertaker
• cheerfully mournful
• cheerfully cynical
• Cherokee Pioneer (name of U.S. car)
• chic (geek chic, nerd chic, sloppy chic, trend chic) [based on the sloppy way some people are dressing in tech-work places].
• child proof
• chilling fever
• Chinese chop suey
• Christian militia
• Christian Scientists
• Church of Scientology
• CIA cooperation
• civil disobedience
• civil engineer
• civil servants
• civil service
• civil strife; spoken by Casca in “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare
• civil war
• civilized warfare
• Classic New Homes
• classic rock & roll
• clean air
• clean coal
• clean dirt
• clean kill
• clean oil
• clean toilet
• clear as mud
• clearly ambiguous
• clearly confused
• clearly confusing
• clearly misunderstood
• clearly obscure
• clever fool
• Clinton leadership
• Clinton’s changing-political positions: “He talks right and runs left.” (Bob Dole)
• Clinton principles
• cluster bomb
• coal-mine safety
• co-ed fraternity
• co-ed sorority
• cold as hell
• cold hotdog
• cold sweat
• cold toast
• college education
• college student
• combative apology
• commercial art
• committee decision
• committee schedule
• common sense
• communist party
• comparatively unique
• compassionate editor
• completed research
• completed website
• completely educated
• completely unfinished
• computer science
• computer security
• completely succinct in-depth (speech, article, etc.)
• compulsory volunteers
• Congressional accountability (U.S.)
• Congressional action (U.S.)
• Congressional cooperation (U.S.)
• Congressional ethics (U.S.)
• Congressional responsibility (U.S.)
• Congressional wisdom (U.S.)
• conscripted volunteer
• consensual rape
• conservative liberal
• considerate boss
• consistent discrepancies
• consistent uncertainties
• consistently inconsistent (heard on CNN from a Russian reporter referring to ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, “Zhirinovsky is consistently inconsistent8")
• conspicuous absence
• conspicuously absent
• constant change
• constant infrequent
• constant variable
• constructive ambiguity
• constructive criticism
• constructive negativity
• contra aid
• contra assistance
• controlled enthusiasm
• controlled-market economy
• controlled skeptic
• convenience store
• conventional wisdom
• corporate conscience
• corporate planning
• correctional institution
• cosmology is in chaos
• corporate family
• corporate planning
• criminal justice
• criminal system
• crisis management
• cruel kindness
• cryocaustic
• current history
• curved line
• customer satisfaction
• customer service

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