Word: singularizes
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...same singular voice, the same personal tone that chooses words, metaphors, and even the situations of these stories. They are unusual situations: A middle-aged white woman goes back to visit the apartment where she grew up and spends several weeks with its current, black inhabitants. A group of mothers, complaining about insufficient protection in the park where their children play, put their gripes in a song before the relevant commission or committee, and so win their demands. A woman meets her ex-husband while returning library books and says "Hello, my life... We had once been married for twenty...
...lawyer's wife echoed the main line of Nixon's defense. "I just don't believe most of what I read about Nixon. He's done a lot for this country. The press won't give him credit." A student stated some singular but thoughtful support. Many great men and women in history, he said, were at one tune or another unprincipled; Nixon was in that pragmatic tradition...
...reported a President confident that history would vindicate him. He said that the office of the presidency had not been immobilized, that Nixon was not despondent. His was the portrait of a man only moderately troubled, hardly diminished. The declarations were greeted with the tolerant disbelief that characterizes this singular season. Haig's responses are those of honor, deeply rooted in his West Point heritage; of a loyal and brave officer following his commander anywhere. The anguish and frustration are behind his eyes and his voice. Haig's account of White House life, while broadcast and printed, drifted...
...words came haltingly, only two or three at a time. "Ford is an emotional man," reports MacNeil. "He is a plain man who loves his family, loves his friends, loves the House. Reading the words he knew he would speak to the Congress and the country, in the singular role he knew he now was in, Ford was simply overcome...
Richard Nixon stands nearer his own resignation or impeachment than ever before. How near is the unanswerable question. But the sense of the men in the White House that they have now resolved part of their tortuous problem is false. It is one of those singular illusions that result from their isolation...