Word: peculiarly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decided not to do the show this year not only for scheduling reasons, but, to some extent, because I've always had problems with the content of the shows. Certainly, the composition of the cast had always seemed peculiar to me when I was in the show, but at the time, I thought it was given that the Pudding would remain all-male. Moreover, I felt that was something the Pudding didn't necessarily have to change. The most difficult thing for me to digest was the Pudding's brutal sense of humor. A firm believer in the power...
During the 16 hours that Abelardo Morell's camera was trained on Times Square, thousands must have passed through the field of his lens. But not one is recorded. The city of his photograph is completely deserted, and the reason for this lies in Morell's famous and peculiar method of photography...
Last summer Russia's collapse had the peculiar result of spurring foreign banks and money managers to run screaming from Brazil--and Brazil's tumble cascaded through Latin America. "So we are living in this funny interconnected world," says Naim, "where a country that does not trade with Latin America, does not have investments with Latin America, is on the other side of the world from Latin America, crashes and takes down Latin America...
This week Peninsula was back in the news, but for a peculiar reason: that is the very fact that it has been absent from the news for so long now. We at Dartboard know the pain of trying to stir up controversy but being met only with apathy, so we have decided to help out our partners in provocation. We propose to provide Peninsula with recrimination welfare; no publication should be denied at least a subsistence level of rhetorical counterattacks...
...English speaker uses 40 different sounds, called phonemes; the Dragon system used our training session to predict how I would say each of those sounds. Finally, I dumped in a few columns of "vocabulary builder" so the software could learn some of the peculiar phrases I use, such as "trainshouters" and "Bust-A-Move." Everything checked out. "My guess," said Gervais, "is that just by being more conscious of how you speak, you'll improve your accuracy...