Word: plurality
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...aftermath is merely delayed. Two months later it becomes apparent to the village doctor that every Midwich woman of fertile years is pregnant-apparently without the assistance of a man. What, the village wonders, was responsible for the mysterious impersonal rape of Midwich. for this ominous plural parthenogenesis? What great beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Midwich to be born...
...five wives and 42 children; his tenth son was Joseph Fielding Smith, who recalls: "I called my mother 'Mom' and my father's other wives 'Aunt.' They each had their own house and lived separately. The Lord had commanded us to have plural marriages; they were needed because we had lost so many during those marches across the plains...
...Bond traders refer to bonds in the plural to save time in buying and selling, e.g., the fives...
...stars with which he decorates his name on the blackboard testify, his ego is still imperial. He attacks sense and syntax with the same insouciance that originally made him such a verbal charmer. To Hyman Kaplan, the discoverer of the laws of gravity is "Isaac Newman,'' the plural of blouse is "blice'' and the opposite of nightmare is "daymare...
...plot-derived from a 1957 novel, The Big War, by Anton Myrer-it is the usual panoramic, cram-it-all-in, move-over-Tolstoy sort of thing, with a plural hero (Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Bradford Dillman) who has any number of women (Dana Wynter, Hope Lange, Sheree North, France Nuyen) in his composite life. Nothing happens that has not happened a hundred times before in other war pictures-except perhaps an unusually large number of sincere but badly misdirected performances by promising young cinemactors. All of them, as Producer Jerry Wald proudly points out, have been carefully nurtured...