By a quirk of timing, I am transcribing letters home to my parents in Stoke, covering the period in 1978-79 that became known as "the winter of discontent".
Another group of migrants are only alive thanks to a quirk of fate: their boat was so rotten it sank almost immediately.
Celebrated character actor Paul Giamatti plays their manager, adding some quirk; filming in Compton, meanwhile, was disrupted by a real drive-by shooting in August, proving how little things have changed in a divided LA.
Monsters aside, the broody male, he says, might have been a gynandromorph – a quirk of genetics in which the chicken has the "plumbing", and appearance, of both male and female.
An electoral quirk might help too: the winning party automatically gets a 50-seat bonus in the 300-seat chamber, making it easier to form a government.
What's interesting is that the protagonist in Holly Bourne's other book, The Manifesto on How to be Interesting has a lot of depth and quirk.
A quirk of US copyright law means that the United States Copyright Office doesn't notify authors of changes in registrations.
Dr Sattentau believes this binding is the molecular mechanism which triggers peanut allergy.Don't go nutsWhy, even so, most people can eat peanuts without ill effect, is probably a quirk of genetics.
Translated into the realm of personal saving, this is precisely the quirk in our nature that Messrs Thaler and Benartzi exploit when they ask people to save more not today, but tomorrow.This quirk sets up an "intimate contest for self-command", as Thomas Schelling, a winner of last year's Nobel prize for economics, puts it.
It is a quirk of timing that he should face the scrutiny of a judiciary that so studiously ignored his predecessors.Actually, not quite a quirk.
Yet thanks to a quirk of law, talk of default is not confined to the European side of the Atlantic.Unlike most countries America requires two legal steps to run a deficit: one to pass budget bills, the other to borrow the money.
