Word: peculiarities
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...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...
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...
...peculiar problem of the U.S. that its citizens, being descended from all the world's peoples, actually care about the unjust treatment of just about anyone, anywhere...
Furthermore, Jett was known for his peculiar fascination with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, the poetry of Lord Byron, and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche...