Word: singularability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When all is said and done in this singular campaign, that may be the most important consideration. The final confrontation could be classic: Walter Mondale, who knows and values the role of the state, vs. Ronald Reagan, who has built his power by a direct dialogue with the people and given much of his long professional life to fighting Government...
...Reagan has genius it was displayed in this posthumous presentation of the Medal of Freedom to Scoop. If Reagan does glide through to victory, it will be because of his singular instincts about how to play President. He melds great national principles with private ambitions; he blends what is real with what is ephemeral. Emotion becomes meaning. Politics becomes sacred policy. Adversaries become allies...
When 47-year-old Discus Thrower Al Oerter wrecked his calf three weeks ago and abandoned his quest for a fifth gold-medal Games, sentiment took a tough loss. But it rebounded marvelously in the person of Hammer Thrower Burke, 44, the singular delight of the trials. His motto: "We must not step off life's parade." A veteran of the 1968 Olympics, Burke retired for twelve years, patented a hydraulic weight-lifting machine and sold it for $2 million. Five years ago, his two teen-age daughters helped him scrub the rust from the old ball and chain...
Marichal says that the freedom given to Spain's historically fractious provinces is largely due to faith in this "singular function of the crown...
...heart here. Laughing Stock's other short plays are slighter: an anecdote about death and telephones and a shaggy-dog story about an old woman's discovery that her 70-year marriage was founded on a sly joke. But they too are marked by Linney's singular talent for stating wild ideas with high, simplifying intelligence and for drawing deft portraits of the half mad in which not a line is misplaced or wasted...