Word: plurality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Excerpt "Once in a while an adult said, 'Your grandfather built the railroad.' (Or 'Your grandfathers built the railroad. Plural and singular are by context.) We children believed that it was that very railroad, those trains, those tracks running past our house; our own giant grandfather had set those very logs into the ground, poured the iron for those very spikes with the big heads and pounded them until the heads spread like that, mere nails to him. He had built the railroad so that trains would thunder over us, on a street that inclined toward...
...practice of polygamy was also at issue. Young claimed that Smith, following private revelations, both preached and practiced polygamy. Smith's widow pointed out that her husband's Book of Mormon denounced plural marriage. The Reorganized Church has always been against the practice, though most historians believe Smith secretly took between 27 and 50 wives, including some women married to other...