Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Readers may be unaware of the peculiar classifications, but library staffers are trained to keep abreast of the cataloguing technology, Amory explains...
...struggle for life took on peculiar and acute form in my generation. One of the hopes on my string of hopes is that we did the job well enough that your task, and my nieces' and nephews', will be a little less peculiar, a little less acute. The chain was almost broken; by God, it held. It held because a few thousand people struck stunned and alive by instincts and expensive education's and rough upbringings and deadly cities were able somehow to achieve and maintain the chain outside itself on to your generation, and then clean...
Outside the President's immediate family and staff, Betsey Wright is probably Bill Clinton's most passionate defender. As a top aide in Arkansas and on the campaign trail, she was the chief squelcher of controversy and scandal. But now her peculiar combination of roles -- confidant, hatchet woman and business lobbyist -- is proving to be a potential hazard for the Administration. Just last week Wright had to disavow a New Yorker article that quoted her suggesting that Hillary Rodham Clinton had plans to run for the presidency. While most people in Washington know enough to take some of her statements...
Secondly, the columnists write, "We think it particularly peculiar that the council waited until the referendum's results came back before setting and attendance limit." This is simply untrue...
...enough to outweigh the input of less than one percent--the members present at the meeting. Did the Council members forget that only 25 percent of students voted them into office? In any case, the referendum on the term-bill increase was judged non-binding. We think it particularly peculiar that the U.C. waited until the referendum's results came back before setting an attendance limit...