Word: singular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Korea, the military picture is better, thanks to the might & main of the U.S., to the lesser but nonetheless real help of 14 other U.N. nations, to the tenacity of the South Koreans themselves, and to the singular dedication of Korea's first & only President, Syngman Rhee. A 400,000-man ROK army, including twelve fully equipped divisions in the line, guards the young republic from further invasion and is building so fast that it may soon be strong enough to take over the whole front. It already holds more than half...
...Britain's Homage to 28,000 American Dead stirred old memories of a heart-warming acquaintance with a Liverpool family whose hospitality and friendship made 1944 a year which I now look back to with singular pleasure . . . There were three children in this family . . . they probably have grown up now and forget our many recitations of Peter Rabbit's excursions to the garden of Mr. McGregor . . . However, "Uncle Chips" remembers...
...doodling pad, Australian Prime Minister Menzies put the problem thus: With singular agility And technical facility We seek convertibility Which means (I'll have you know) A quid for every...
...Sacred Flame (by Somerset Maugham) is something Maugham ought never to have written. Even in 1928, when it may have aired a bolder problem, it must have seemed a singular problem play. As a matter of fact, it is a sort of drawing-room problem whodunit, concocted of about equal parts Wilde, Pinero and Agatha Christie, doused with platitudes, and served up half-cold...
...Gary's singular explanation of what he thinks he is doing is drowned and swept away in the torrent of what he actually does. From the pregnant chaos of his books something better and more beautiful emerges than a neat pseudo-world of ideas: he has "created" human' beings, men, women & children, alive and kicking...