Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recalls now trying postehaste to loop in the costume of the larger soprano, thinking: "My God, in all this huge place, isn't there anybody who has a pin?" Her performance created a sensation. Her voice was curiously husky, uneven, but she played the role with such singular understanding that she sold out 100 performances
Archbishop John Hughes (1797-1864)* was in Rome on Dec. 8, 1854 when Pope Pius IX proclaimed the new dogma and instructed Catholics to believe ''that the Blessed Virgin Mary, from the first instant of her conception, was, by a most singular grace and privilege of Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the human race, preserved from all stain of Original Sin. . . ." Catholics also believe that "she had at least the graces of the first Eve before the Fall and "more." The dogma invigorated the ancient veneration of Mary. The woman Mary became...
...didn't occur to me when I composed the sentence that it might have a political bearing. It was used solely because it aptly illustrated use of the singular subject and plural verb...