Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Librarian Arrested in Rare Book Heist...
Well, maybe not at the well-wrought sentence or the lapidary essay. But that has never been his aim or his claim. Random House Editor Sam Vaughan accurately notes that "King is one of those rare writers with both a cult and a mass audience." And Barnes & Noble Buyer Ronda Wanderman ungrammatically observes, "King goes beyond horror like Danielle Steel goes beyond romantic fiction." Columbia English Professor George Stade probes further. The King novels, he maintains, "are not so different from the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dracula or Tarzan. We need these guys around, and we tend to read them more...
...host of opportunistic infections that attack many AIDS patients because their immune systems have already been weakened by the virus. Experts estimate that almost 50 percent of the nearly 12,000 living AIDS patients in the U.S. have had this rare form of pneumonia...
...coming to Memorial Hall to discuss this topic with all interested members of our community. Several students have been invited to have tea with him afterward. Granted, not everyone at Harvard may have tea with the Secretary. But any reasonable person would agree that the tea is a rare opportunity for some students to take a bigger part in the secretary's visit. We should be happy that some will have this good fortune, rather than complain that everyone cannot...
Despite our love for football, we always went bowling at birthday parties. We became very competitive during the games, and each roll of the ball seemed to carry with it an enormous burden, as the entire birthday crowd gathered to watch. A strike was a rare thing and was greeted with applause. A gutter ball was a more frequent thing and was laughed...