Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feelings may have been singular only in their intensity. Other people were--or would be--thinking similar thoughts about the afternoon's events. For the meeting of McNamara and his critics on Mill St. was not an ordinary occurrence for Harvard. It resembled no other political protest in the College's recent history. Previous demonstrations had been mild in comparison. The most memorable, perhaps, was George Wallace's visit to Cambridge in the fall of 1963. It provoked a large demonstration on Cambridge Common and picketing around Sanders Theatre. All that happened then, however, was that someone...
...nimble, experienced ensemble singers. As Leonore, Gladys Kuchta reaches everything but the heights of Abscheulicher!; Julius Patzak, who had been singing for 35 years when this record was made, still sounds fresh and sturdy as Florestan; the best performance on the record is Melita Muszely's Marzelline. The singular glories of Birgit Nilsson's Fidelio can't be found here, but listeners will enjoy a high level of musicianship...
Edwards not only undertakes to explain UFOs as the work of extraterrestrial beings but, by a singular logical sleight of hand, uses UFOs to explain extraterrestrial beings. Thus UFOs can explain parts of the Book of Genesis, which admittedly takes some explaining. Those "angels" in Genesis 19 were "not necessarily of celestial origin" but were some kind of space men, and the "giants in the earth in those days" who mated with women (Genesis 6:4) clearly refer to beings from out yonder...
Just about everyone swears on occasion. But some people are cursed with a pathological need to curse-and uncontrollably shout obscenities every few minutes. Accompanied by a violent muscular tic, their singular malady is called the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome for the French neurologist who first described it in 1884. The disease is rare, but its smutty symptoms turn its victims into social pariahs, and sometimes the psychological disorder leads them to mental institutions...
...previous manned spacecraft and Astronaut Mike Collins, at 35, became the first man to work outside, his ship twice during the same mission. All of which places the U.S. far ahead of Russia in almost every area of manned in space flight. rendezvous and With their docking while singular aloft skills-which the Russians have not yet begun to try-U.S. spacemen moved closer than ever to the moon...