Word: plurality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hence the decision to let the Soviets send Ilyichev back to the negotiating table. Hence also Premier Zhao Ziyang's recent call for a "common endeavor to combat the superpowers' hegemonism," a deliberate use of the plural that lumped the U.S. together with the Soviet Union as a threat against "peace-loving and justice-upholding countries and peoples...
BOOM! Seagulls dive over a beach and land neatly on paper. For Renaissance Man Donald Everett Axinn squats against a dune scribbling--islands, berries, turtles, plural nouns. He glues the words together with broad images like love, wind, or sea, making poems from them...
...dean, "designer-developer" and pilot. His flight experience, along with nature, constituted the two sources of inspiration for the poems in his recently released collection. The Hawk's Dream. Indeed, the descriptions of flight and forest scenes provide virtually the only energy in the poems. His overuse of the plural, a common tendency among contemporary poets, makes his work disturbing and unfocused. He describes his subjects and then does not seem quite sure what to do with them...
Stanley is invisible, but he communicates with his operatives like the guy with the intercom in "Charlie's Angels." That's why the people who work at the Educational Centers always use the first-person plural. "We have researched this question type thoroughly," they say, speaking for themselves and for Stanley. "And we find that there are often two good answers, but only one really good answer...
...correct the factual errors. It is not only GSA members who are upset--alumni, professors, staff, and non-gay students are also concerned and have signed the petition Nor is it true that Pattullo was "clearly speaking as a layman" by signing his title and using the first person plural ("we would think [the discouragement of homosexuality] a good thing"), he suggests that his views reflect the policy of the Center...