Word: peculiar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope Britain will not follow that peculiar Americanism known as affirmative action, in order to help immigrants. Such programs exacerbate a feeling of resentment among the majority population and can only exacerbate the immigrants' inferiority complex. Sean O' Sullivan East Peckham, England...
Officials from the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, which is financing about 80 per cent of the extension project, ruled last spring that the $1 million in compensation is justifiable, "in the peculiar case of a University...
LIFE AT THE DAKOTA: NEW YORK'S MOST PECULIAR ADDRESS by Stephen Birmingham Random House; 241 pages...
...spectral presences, muffled in the folds of calcified gauze, their skin roughened with residual abstract-expressionist drips and clots. It hardly matters that the stooped Gerontion in Segal's Hot Dog Stand, 1978, is a cast of the sprightly museum director Martin Friedman; what does count is the peculiar tension between his dark shape and the bright white figure of the waitress, under the glare of the lit mock-Mondrian ceiling...
This circle of wolves had one thing in common: it was their first night at Harvard. Fifty years hence, the room would remain intact; but this peculiar amalgamation of souls would never come to rejoin--perhaps only later in heaven or hell. But between freshman year, heaven and hell, each would come to love and be what the other sitting beside him would hate and despise. The only thing they all had to cherish at this tiny joint in time was their strangeness, and in time it would all diffuse...