Word: singularize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certain level of respect from white folks. But when Armstrong called out President Eisenhower for not standing behind those black children as school integration began in Little Rock, Ark., 40 years ago, there was not a peep heard from anyone else in the jazz world. His heroism remained singular. Such is the way of the truly great: they do what they do in conjunction or all by themselves. They get the job done. Louis Daniel Armstrong was that kind...
Until the 1970s, the duties of the classmarshals were relatively singular: to plan ClassDay. But according to Diane Jellis, associatedirector for classes and reunions at the AlumniAssociation (HAA), Harvard soon felt that moremoney was needed for reunions, and so the classmarshals were charged with expanding the number ofclass events to the dozens that exist...
...speaker. It is hard not to feel invigorated speaker. It is hard not to feel invigorated when Gomes wants us to spend, not merely Sunday but the rest of the week, pondering that "Everyone of us is born with endowed opportunity...God has destined you for something unique, something singular with your name on it. Your job in life is to find out what that...
...Henry Adams but makes less sense today than his brilliant description of the President as perhaps the fundamental motive force of our age: "Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts...Roosevelt, more than any other man living within the range of notoriety, showed the singular primitive quality that belongs to ultimate matter--he was pure...
...criminal records, including murder, rape and kidnapping), but the overwhelming cause of voter apathy has been the inability of one single party to gain enough support to enact positive programs. The main force that allied Congress and the United Front was not common ideology or common programs, but the singular desire to keep the BJP from power. An alliance founded on hatred of a common enemy is uneasy at best, and when the alliance is forged by corrupt, power-hungry politicians, it's doomed to farce and failure...