Word: singularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end the newsmen and photographers from all over Europe who filled the court were uncertain what impression was being gained by the twelve apple-cheeked Swiss jurors who will decide whether lovelorn Pierre Jaccoud goes free or goes to jail for life for "murder with singular perversity." But already the testimony had been such that staid, strait-laced Geneva-the society that ignores tourists and scorns international conclaves -is not likely to be the same for a long time to come. Said a Swiss-German lawyer of the Swiss-French city: "This is the undoing...
...Here's what you do." He paused again. It was difficult for him to analyze his most singular achievement, even though he was grooming his successors...
Author Bjarnhof writes a sparely sculptured prose of singular beauty and keeps just the right emotional distance from his theme so that what the reader suffers is never sentimental pathos but the moving burden of bearing the unbearable. The wonder and purgative power of The Good Light is that men like Karl Bjarnhof's hero, pushed to the extremity of the human spirit, do not curse God and die, but like Little Jens, bless life and live...
...below the surface, and the development versions of Polaris missile have made good scores in surface firings (more than 900 miles). If Raborn can keep his promise to make Polaris operational late this year, George Washington will be three years ahead of schedule-and uncounted years ahead in the singular art of nuclear warfare...