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...write, when a few mandarins will whimper secrets to each other," he told the assembled academicians. "I express the wish that the academy at that time protect the persons suspected of individualism. I would like to think that our doors would open for the singular persecuted by the plural...
...instructor in journalism at a nearby girls' school in Newton, I was naturally interested in the use of the word "world" by Publisher Fox. As a former reporter for the Post, I felt impelled to write him a letter asking his authority for the plural verb with his singular noun...
...were misleading, deceptive, and misrepresented the facts. They exhorted voters to vote "No" on the so-called P.R. (proportional representation) referendum using the sign "Save Plan E, Vote No," although Plan E is, and can be used as a form of government with either P.R. (proportional representation) or ordinary plural voting...
...Mormon Church outlawed polygamy 63 years ago, but tiny outlaw cults, defiantly devoted to plural marriage, have gone on springing up in out-of-the-way corners of the Southwest ever since. Back in the '30s half a dozen renegade Mormon fundamentalists and their women trekked into one of the wildest and loneliest areas left in the U.S.-the unpoliced, almost uninhabited strip of tumbled, gorge-cut Arizona desert north of the Grand Canyon. They settled there at the little shack town of Short Creek, beneath high red cliffs named the Towers of Tummurru...
...line of Mormons, started with a tough row to hoe-a row of sugar beets on his family's 160-acre farm in the Cache Valley of southern Idaho. His paternal great-grandfather and namesake, an early Apostle and eight-wife man in the days when Mormons advocated plural marriage, accompanied Brigham Young to the Salt Lake desert; his grandfather was born in a covered wagon as the family moved across the plains. Ezra himself was born in a two-room frame house, which was expanded again & again as ten more children arrived...