"I was looking for uncommon valor," he said.
I kind of went back there for Uncommon Places.
And despite the Dutch Reformed Church's dominance, the exhibition shows, there was enough leeway to allow for uncommon variety.
The attempt to address diners' desires for uncommon but unstilted experiences was evident in restaurants in every genre and at every price point.
Some of these prickly ideas are addressed by John R. Grimes, the museum's curator of Native American art and culture, in a lucid catalog essay for "Uncommon Legacies".
The approval breaks the monopoly held by Biogen, the maker of Avonex, under a government program meant to encourage research into treatments for uncommon diseases.
He began talking about an award he created five years ago to recognize New Jerseyans for uncommon acts of heroism and community service, people he called "unsung heroes".
Hoh, as the Washington Post reports, was a foreign service officer and a Marine captain cited for "uncommon bravery" in Iraq.
A spokeswoman for Uncommon Schools said that only a small part of the reduction was due to attrition; most can be explained by students' being held back for lack of academic skills.
Starting in the fourth grade, he said, he began memorizing words that his father had collected from the dictionary and, when he started winning spelling bees, browsing the dictionary himself for uncommon words.
In 1973, on his first trip for "Uncommon Places," during which he traveled thousands of miles, Mr. Shore made daily lists of what he ate, how long he drove, what he saw on television or at the movies, how many photographs he took and the number of photographic postcards from an earlier project that he surreptitiously distributed in drug stores and truck stops.
