Word: singularability
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Perfected after six years of research, the sophisticated AMU (for Astronaut Maneuvering Unit) that is built into the space walker's backpack will give Bassett singular agility. It is powered by twelve small hydrogen peroxide thrusters that can propel it in any direction; it has its own fuel tanks, running lights, gyroscopes, and an alarm system that warns the wearer by flashing lights and sounding beeps in his earphones if fuel or oxygen is running low. With its own hour-long oxygen supply, storage batteries and radio and telemetry systems, the AMU does not even need the "umbilical cord...
...against its own spherical. Miles out to star, you can smell it, the tang of variability here. O how shall I render a what-where-who-how which is always all happening at the same different ONCE! O pi in the sky! 0000000 000000000000000000000000000 those first tingles of the singular in this bigotedly back-and-forth place...
Goethe's greatest masterpiece, however, was Goethe. His character, though flawed, was a work of art; his life, though often desperately unhappy, was a singular achievement. Torn apart by huge and various talents that plunged like wild horses in all directions, he was driven by the threat of emotional dismemberment to seek the true center of his personality. The search for this "secret node" in which all conflicts could be reconciled was Goethe's obsession, and in pursuit of it he broke open vast new tracts of the dark continent where Freud and Jung, a century later, made...
Last week Paul issued an encyclical firmly in favor of transubstantiation. He did not deny the right of the holders of "singular opinions" to investigate, but it was his duty to warn against "the grave danger that these opinions involve for correct faith...
...work," she told reporters, "but Lambarene as a spiritual center is irrevocably gone." In time, the Gabonese villagers may come to prefer the gleaming white government hospital a mile up the river. But Lambarene, and the world, will always have the memory of a giant who tried in his singular way to love as Jesus loved, who oddly but honestly lived Goethe's song: The deed is everything, The glory naught...