Word: peculiar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While everyone else north of Delaware was concentrating on the Yankees and the Sox this weekend, Ivy elevens were busy generating their own peculiar brand of gridiron excitement...
...almost universally loved in this country, even by those who have never been there. Mellow--everyone I met on the coast as I headed north told me the main thing about Frisco was how mellow it is. Maybe it's the natural environment, or the Spanish legacy, or the peculiar effect of its Gold Rush origin, or simply all those people up there who've destroyed their brain cells with acid, but the city certainly seems mellow, with a capital laid back. Somehow the country forgot to tell Frisco that the Right-on Sixties had become the New Mood Seventies...
...versatility included, as he admits, a powerful talent for getting fired, and for 'maneuvering himself into situations where honor and restlessness demanded that he resign. He was also good at spending money. The result was that his career continued to take peculiar turns-the commercial fishing venture, for instance-well after he had achieved what for an other man would have been professional security as a flyer and writer...
...earliest researchers to express concern over microwaves was a New York ophthalmologist, Dr. Milton Zaret, who warned more than a decade ago that even low-level exposure could produce a peculiar type of cataract, or clouding, on the rear surface of the lens. (The lens is especially vulnerable to microwave "cooking" because it has no blood vessels to carry off heat.) In 1968 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said that another organ was vulnerable as well: the testes, because only slight temperature changes can affect the sperm-producing process...
...really educating boys? Or is it all a halfhearted pretense? There is a certain staginess to the place; the grounds and buildings, donated by a rich and eccentric old lady are too grand for the modest faculty and student body. In addition the donor has imposed some peculiar conditions-evening dress must be worn at supper, for instance-that have never matured to become traditions. Boys and masters repeatedly assure one another that Dorset really is a good school...