Word: singularize
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...even though Johnson was tagged a lame duck as soon as he announced his intention to withdraw, he is now in fact a bird of rather singular muscularity. He retains the allegiance of countless party regulars, labor officials, businessmen and civil rights leaders. There is every likelihood that his rating in the public-opinion polls will rise considerably as a result of the renunciation. Together, these factors will give him considerable leverage, which he has not had in recent months. And Lyndon Johnson, who above all else craves a favorable verdict from history, will undoubtedly use those levers...
...pushers, but he manages to maintain his integrity. Amidst defeat and depravity, he nurtures his memories of the country's reach and grandeur, of the days he spent hunting and fishing, and of his pride in earning his living with his hands. It is Author Shetzline's singular achievement that he keeps DeFord and his memories uncorrupted...
MAGAZINES First Person Singular Many editors have lately decided that magazine prose is too impersonal - that in a rather impersonal world, readers yearn for human voices and the pro noun "I." The result is a revival of personal journalism, typified in the current issues of Harper's and the Atlantic, each of which is almost entirely devoted to the work of one writer...
...deliberation, the smile on the face of a chunky, balding spectator seemed to light up the marbled chamber. For Stuart Thomas Saunders, 58, the man who has already been picked to head the Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Co., the court's 8-0* vote was a singular personal triumph...
...sang these songs that paid particular attention to a certain first person singular pronoun, nominative case...