Word: peculiar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corner he has occupied off and on since 1928. But soon he is up again and leaning over the news desk. "Anything big?" he asks, a question he repeats before every edition. By early afternoon, the basement presses roll out a newspaper that in Cowgill, Humansville, Farmersville, Fair Play, Peculiar, Knob Noster, Kansas City, and several hundred other Missouri-Kansas communities is familiar, reassuring-and powerful...
...rapidly developing country like Nigeria, we see some peculiar paradoxes. We saw one of these when the Action Group campaign helicopter landed on the road in front of our Mission compound here. The wind from the rotor almost tore the grass roof off a nearby house. It is probably the first time that "repair of grass roofs" might be listed as election expenses. The helicopter pilot mentioned that one disadvantage of the helicopter's use was the fact that it often attracted more attention than the campaign speech...
...Libyan Desert to look for graffiti, ancient inscriptions on rocks. Near the oasis of Ghat, 500 miles south of the Mediterranean coast, he found on his last expedition a shallow cave with many graffiti scratched on its walls. When he dug into the sandy floor, he found a peculiar bundle: a goatskin wrapped around the desiccated body of a child. The entrails had been removed and replaced by a bundle of herbs...
...makes enormous, almost unattainable, demands on the rhythmic accuracy of the players. It is certainly not an aggressively unpleasant work and some piquant arrangements of the brass sonorities were intriguing. Yet, the work seems not, even after several hearings, to have justification for its length or most of its peculiar characteristics. The performance suggested that Mr. Senturia had steered the group well through the score's most complicated sections. Only a lovely oboe introduction to the first movement by Carl Schlaikjer seemed anything more than competent. But then, in this piece, a competent performance constitutes a major achievement in itself...
...what seems to be the sterilizing claims of grace." But all that man can know of God is the way in which he cannot know God," Sittler explained, and therefore negation "brings to decisive clarity precisely what is involved in the affirmation of Grace and Nature." Faith has its peculiar courage in virtue of the persistent negation that accompanies it; faith is the ultimate risk, not a freedom from risk...