Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even so, Harkin fans demonstrate a depth of support uncommon in other Democratic voters, many of whom seem hesitant in their commitment to candidates...
Less imaginative people might have urged him to dedicate his talents to basketball or football. But at 14, Robert Pipkins was already enamored of gymnastics and swimming. That was uncommon enough for a New York City youth, but after his mother brought home a flyer about tryouts for the junior national luge team, Pipkins decided to travel to Lake Placid and give it a try. He immediately loved the luge for the "exciting and risky" way the tiny sled carries one man at high speed. In January, after only three months of top-level training, Pipkins, 18, became a member...
...wasn't uncommon for young people in the 60s to be inspired by Kennedy with a surge of idealism. But for Ganz, Kennedy's death was a formative moment in an unusually idealistic life...
Going to medical school is an easy choice for many Asians at Harvard because it is for many Asian students and their families the default career choice. Plenty of Asians have become successful doctors, so plenty of Asians take the path most traveled. Racial discrimination is relatively uncommon in science, where recognition and advancement hinge on correct answers and well-designed experiments, epitomized in lab reports and objective test scores...
...uncommon for politicians to blame ethnic and racial minorities for poor economic times. Like the Bush administration infighting, the attack on Bush from the right may help defeat the president in the fall. But also like the White House wrangling, the rebirth of the politics of race and isolation in America warn of deeper problems...