Word: uncommonness
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...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
...hardly uncommon. Many parents look for any possible scapegoat for their children's behavior--ignoring their own culpability. And in the search to lay blame, television is an easy target...
...think attempts occur that often,"Murphy said. "I'd have to say this is uncommon...
...consider (in order of increasing intolerability) strange, misguided, wrong, or evil? With a little reflection, we might be surprised to find that there are no easy answers. In fact, most of the reasons people give for tolerance are flawed. Here follows the most common arguments for tolerance, plus an uncommon one that I think beats all of them...
...help local governments hire more cops -- are the kind of specious gestures that are made whenever Washington tries to tap into voter sentiment on what is largely a state-and-local issue. If adopted in its present form, the bill will extend the death penalty to 47 mostly uncommon crimes and create 60 new federal crimes for acts that are already punished by state law. Among the offenses that will now be punishable by death: Fatal violence occurring on maritime platforms...