Keyword propagated to thousands of photos..why?

Somehow a keyword propagated to thousands of my photos. I don't know if I caused it or it was something gone horribly wrong. In any case I want to remove it from all photos. Then I'll just go and put it on the appropriate ones. But how to do this?
Is there a way to search for photos that have a specific keyword. I would think the search would do that but when I try to run it I get the entire library. Even photos that don't have any keyword come back in the search. Whats goofed up where and how do I fix it?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Create a Smart Album as Terence suggested with the criteria Keyword is XXXXX (the keyword you're referring to). Then select all of the photos in the album and type Command+K to bring up the keyword pane. 
In the keyword pane the keywords that apply to all of the photos will be in blue without a hyphen before it.
Click on that keyword (the background will turn white) to remove it from those selected photos.
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