Word: singularability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contact was a measure of a man's determination, Johnson locked eyes with Kosygin at one crucial point. Needing a sip of coffee, L.B.J. felt for his cup on the table rather than release his visual grip on Kosygin, who finally blinked and looked away. Johnson thought this singular human triumph was important. Perhaps it was. If some day we ever get a glimpse of Kremlin papers, we may find an unusual report from Kosygin on the day he locked eyes with Lyndon Johnson...
James J. Scannell, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, called the donation "the biggest thing in higher education as a singular response to the crisis of financial...
...candidates for council chairman indicates anything, most of the new outfit's self styled leaders are equally out to lunch A mere two or three expressed concrete ideas. Several, ludicrously enough, based their candidacies on their "experience" in the pathetic Student Assembly that went belly-up last spring, its singular accomplishment being its securing of toilet paper for the River Houses several years back. Most spoke in only the most banal of generalizations and platitudes...
...master without masterpieces. Instead of singular pictures, his body of work suggests a group portrait: one vast, remarkable family, with genetic similarities more noticeable than the vagrant differences in individual ambition, audacity or achievement. Each sibling carries his or her own snapshots: the weary hostility that spills across a kitchen table in The Merchant of Four Seasons; the riff of revenge in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant when a quiet young woman walks out on her longtime dominatrix to the bluesy strains of The Great Pretender; the logger-heading of fear and desire in a dozen Fassbinder movies...
...Student government: The Undergraduate Council, the University's first officially recognized student government in years, gets underway this fall, and students are scheduled to vote for representatives in October. The council will replace the pathetic Student Assembly, known for its ludicrously low attendance and for one singular accomplishment: securing additional toilet paper for the River Houses...