Word: lone
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Yuri Kapralov, the lone Soviet participant in the nationwide proceedings, offered similarly questionable statements. It may be too optimistic to expect objectivity from a government spokesman, but Kapralov demonstrated a disdain for factual clarity that was truly remarkable. His claim that the United States had been the first to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles and missile launching submarines, thereby forcing the Soviet Union to respond, is simply not true. The Soviets first tested an ICBM in 1957, well before the first U.S. test firing in November 1958. Soviet missile submarines, though markedly inferior to the American Polaris system, appeared earlier...
...actors looks critically at the others' nostalgia for the ideals of the sixties, sums up the problem. Asking what it all really accomplished, he is neatly shunted aside by a quick and easy deus ex machina, the question never to be dealt with at all. The lone figure from the past--aged 21 in 1968, 41 in 1988 when the play is supposed to take place--serves only to frame the action and act as a convenient medium for the songs, like "Hair" and "Aquarius," that can't be neatly crammed into the modernized plot...
Dunster-Mather capitalized on Keith Douds' third-quarter interception by driving 78 yards for the game's lone score. Rosen capped the 19-play march up the field with a one-yard scamper into the endzone...
...eight provincial premiers who have stonewalled Trudeau's plans for 14 months dropped their opposition. After 114 years, declared the ebullient Prime Minister, "Canada will become, in a technical and legal sense, an independent country." Still, Trudeau faced one important challenge to his dream. The lone holdout against his plan among the ten premiers was René Lévesque, leader of predominantly French-speaking Quebec, who warned, "Never will we accept that our traditional and fundamental powers be removed without our consent...
...Mister Roberts (on stage 1948-51, on screen 1955) he could still show surprise that the men of the U.S.S. Reluctant would confer so much moral authority on him. But from then on the Fonda character was at ease with his place in American history, whether as a lone righteous juror in 12 Angry Men, or as any number of military men, government officials?and desperadoes...