Word: singularize
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...comes to that, the people who can take the credit, or blame, are the fire-breathing G.O.P. House freshmen. The 73 first-termers are united by their singular conviction that the budget must be balanced in seven years--not the 10 that Clinton proposes. At least three times in the past two weeks they met with Gingrich to tell him this is a nonnegotiable demand. And Gingrich is promising to hold their line pretty much where they want it. "Seven years and a month, maybe," he says. "But eight years...
When Cornell and fellow physicists at the JILA laboratory (formerly the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) in Boulder, Colorado, announced their achievement in Science last week, their colleagues around the world were quick to cheer. "The term Holy Grail seems quite appropriate, given the singular importance of this discovery," wrote Oxford physicist Keith Burnett in a commentary that accompanied the report...
...experience." From that experience they've drawn some history and autobiography and a little private mediation, set them deep in the spirit, then drawn them out into a jazz pilgrimage. Black spirituals, white hymns, folk tunes from Ireland and French Canada: Jones and Haden give them a singular unity and immediacy. This isn't just great music. It's healing music...
...cucumber) stick out a little into our space. Everything is painted with self-abnegating care, warts and all, becoming a tiny sample of the world as a marvel: not through weirdness or preciousness (as in the curio cabinets of the great) but through its ordinary, even blemished, but always singular character...
...after the truck was ordered westward. What Peise's real mission was -- if any -- no one knew. It seemed strange that he had orders to go west when the Wehrmacht needed every man in the east. The sergeant shed no light on the question. He drove the truck with singular determination, fatigue cap pushed into his neck, submachine gun slung across his chest, eyes on the road...