Word: peculiare
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...host of peculiar people were going in and out of the party--strange little bearded men running to the bathroom. One particularly officious little man was the radio personality Dick Syatt, though we didn't know it at the time...
...shiny lump of Self, 1978, is one of those forms that would be banal in fiber glass or even bronze; but it is made of laminated and coopered wood, and its variations of sanding and cutting, the slight bumps and dimples of the black-painted skin, give it a peculiar organic eloquence...
Nevertheless, we find the peculiar moral agenda which the Rev. Gomes has recently assumed disturbingly inappropriate for a man holding the office and bearing the responsibilities of Christian ministry. Therefore, it is with sorrow, but with a firm sense of the moral importance of out endeavor, that in the absence of some change of heart on the part of Gomes, we feel bound as Christians and members of the Harvard community to call on the Rev. Gomes to resign his position as Minister in the Memorial Church. Sumner E. Anderson '92 Christopher B. Brown '94 Robert K. Wasinger...
McDonald's does not expect a franchise in Portland, Or, to make as much money as one in New York City or to pay their employees the same salaries. Major League baseball suffers from a peculiar blind spot in this regard...
Louis must simultaneously deal with his mother's $22 million inheritance from an ethically questionable chemical company once operated by his grandfather. Fuel to the fire comes in the form of a peculiar series of earthquakes which are beginning to threaten the New England area. And if that weren't enough, Renee--an older, unattractive, brilliant and insecure Harvard seismologist with strong feminist tendencies, whom Louis finds himself falling reluctantly in love with--discovers that these turbulent terrestrial tremors could very well be the result of the avaricious and corrupt conduct of Louis' grandfather and his cohorts...