Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impression is that it was a very distinct, high quality group of applicants," Moore said. "It was very exciting to interview them. All of them would be well qualified to be police commissioner...
...miniaturist but a dwarf who at a court banquet had to skip from a pie and walk the length of the table bearing portraits of the King and Queen he had copied after Van Dyck on playing cards. It cannot have been fun to be this small, if distinct, talent, awaiting his cue in a dark pastry coffin. But to be Van Dyck himself? A different matter...
Taxonomists who dare enter Cabot will find four distinct species of premeds--studying, eating, drinking, (but certainly not mating) in the catacombs of the Science Center...
Higgins, 51, grouched cheerfully about such matters over an easeful lunch in what must no longer be called the men's bar at Locke-Ober, hard by the Boston Common. Books, as distinct from best sellers, just aren't thought important, he says. He notes with disgust that even in the most literate city in North America (that's Boston), the leading paper (the Globe, though he deplores its preachiness) barely bothers to scrape together a Sunday book-review section. And justifies this lapse (says Higgins, a onetime Globe columnist) because it doesn't get enough book ads. "Does...
...several profound changes. Would you like to go dancing? he asked. Others who were present have since testified that they told Peterson the woman's true name was Sarah (her last name is being withheld). They explained that she suffered from multiple- personality disorder (MPD), an ailment involving several distinct "personalities" that take turns dominating the same body...