Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there thinking. "Wow, an actual intellectual at Harvard." I reassured him that intellectualism was fine at Harvard. Just a little uncommon...
...asked the manager if the store was always like that on Saturdays or if this had anything to do with the tropical storm that had briefly been mentioned on the news the night before. Such lines had not been uncommon when anxious meteorologists cried wolf in the past...
Rappers expressing their passion for justice and black empowerment are hardly uncommon. Rhyming over experimental jazz, funk, blues and reggae samples is no longer unorthodox. But the Atlanta-based group Arrested Development does both in a way that strikes a novel note. For one thing, consider its makeup. There are four men and two women (itself unusual, since rap groups nearly always divide strictly along gender lines): a lead rapper- singer named Speech, a deejay, another singer, a traditional African dancer and -- get this -- a 60-year-old spiritual adviser, who doesn't appear onstage with the group but draws...
...week's All-Star Game must have dispelled them. The event was designed to showcase the President as a normal, red-blooded American just when the Democrats were listening to Jesse Jackson and AIDS activists in Madison Square Garden. Instead it turned into another Bush public relations fiasco. Showing uncommon disrespect for the man as well as the office, the crowd at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium booed Bush as he strode to the pitcher's mound with the legendary slugger Ted Williams -- not exactly the image he wished to convey to roughly 22 million television viewers...
...uncommon for corresponding departments at two different schools to each seek a professor at the other, Temin said. "There are examples where there are competing offers," he added...