Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those, like Maude and Mark, who would entrap her. She is good at duplicity--so good it becomes a habit. Thus she works it on Merton, the sort of weak, handsome man strong women are attracted to and know how to use. Millie, with one of those wilting diseases peculiar to heroines of romantic novels, has no such guile. Imperiled innocence is her lure for Merton, and it may draw him beyond the reach of Kate's conniving...
...weird," an insightful character remarks, upon encountering one of the many bizarre players in Tom Sharpe's new satirical comedy, The Midden. And peculiar the novel certainly is--often funny, at times tedious, but always weird...
...when it was announced that President Jiang Zemin would speak at Harvard, I found myself facing a peculiar, foreign impulse: I had the vague beginnings of what one might call "the urge to protest." At first the idea struck me as so misplaced that I nearly laughed it off. But as I followed the coverage of Jiang's American tour, his facility in avoiding any head-on confrontation started to irk me. Eventually I decided that it wouldn't hurt if Jiang--a man who just last week called the government-sponsored shootings at Tiananmen square "the correct conclusion"--knew...
...abnormalities was the groundwater, and that tadpoles raised in tanks that contained more than 50 percent Minnesota water led to a very high deformity rate. This is the same groundwater that is considered safe enough to be used for drinking. For those who might think this is a problem peculiar to Minnesota, the high frequency of deformed frogs has been found in Japan and southern California. More importantly, these species could be serving as the environment's proverbial canary, much like the ones used by miners decades ago. And the frogs may point to a serious problem with the water...
Making matters worse, my relations with my roommate were extremely poor, to the point of near-violence, as I eventually informed my Senior Tutor. He and I should both be thankful for Mather's peculiar architecture, which insures singles for all of its students; for otherwise, I fear that one or both of us would not have lived through the semester...