Word: peculiare
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...city of Cambridge itself has continued its custom of festooning Harvard Square with strings of lights. Overhanging Massachusetts Avenue at various locations, peculiar whirlpool-shaped designs shed blurs of light on the automobiles and pedestrians passing below. These odd illuminations alert visitors and residents alike of some impending festive occasion, but remain ambiguous as to what that occasion might be. Lights during December traditionally signal Christmas, even when arranged in no particular pattern, but the Cambridge decorations seem to imply some other holiday by their strangeness: something new, something different, something starkly conscious of a Christian heritage they carefully avoid...
...More than five years later, Darwin has miraculously re-emerged - under strikingly peculiar circumstances. The 57-year-old former prison guard strolled into a police station on London's fashionable Savile Row Saturday and told officers, "I think I am a missing person." Darwin provided his name, birth date and address, but said he had no idea where he had been since vanishing. He was declared legally dead...
...East St. Louis, Ill. These were encounters with deep, seemingly intractable, black poverty. And I am sure that Obama, like me, was motivated by a genuine desire to do something good. But on another level these were also very likely quests for racial authenticity--for a resolution of that peculiar alienation that trails mixed-race people, that absence of a simple racial solidarity that is the easy birthright of others. When Obama is about to leave Chicago for Harvard Law School, he wonders: "Was that all that had brought me to Chicago, I wondered--the desire for such simple acceptance...
...immediately prosecuted at the federal level. Undocumented immigrants run a huge risk just driving to work. Furthermore, obtaining a license signifies an effort to comply with the system, something an overwhelming number of undocumented immigrants have sought to do over the last few years.There was a peculiar worry on the left that DMV employees would have been able to create a list of who is legal and who’s not. The notion was false. Under Spitzer’s policy, the copies of documents people submit for special licenses would have been destroyed post-verification. Even...
...powerful statement for those teams, and the University of Illinois, to stop living in the past. Inexplicably, prejudice against Native Americans still abounds in ways that our society has condemned in the abstract. Long overdue is the realization that Native Americans are not America’s peculiar toy to jerk around—they are a people as distinctive as any. It may not correct the massive injustices dealt to Native Americans in the past, but the death of Chief Illiniwek will at least afford them basic respect...