Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reilly is an expert on the subject-the author of The Girl I Left Behind. Washington's Hays Gorey admitted to "misgivings about the reception I would get since, to some activist feminists, men are suspect as objective journalists. But I encountered no formidable barriers." One singular contribution of women to the story is the artwork: the cover and all the illustrations are the work of women artists, under the direction of Deputy Art Director Irene Ramp...
...alarming and perplexing void that followed Haig's resignation last week, the belief took root that his consuming appetite for power was at least partly responsible for his demise. He wanted to be President. He wanted the one position still denied him in his singular zeal to straighten out this nation and reorder the world...
Ensconced in Foggy Bottom, Haig grubbed for turf, sniped at rivals like Richard Allen of the National Security Council and, with his singular energy, charm and connivance, did indeed become the vicar of foreign policy for a President more than slightly bewildered by the routines and realities of geopolitics...
Last week three of Nixon's appointees (Chief Justice Warren Burger, Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist) helped overturn those lower-court decisions. Wrote Powell for the majority: "Because of the singular importance of the President's duties, diversion of his energies by concern with private lawsuits would raise unique risks to the effective functioning of government." A Chief Executive who was vulnerable to such suits, Powell argued, would tend to be overly cautious...
University of Chicago President Hanna H. Gray at Clark University in Worcester, Mass.: "I think today's students are less given than were students ten or 15 years ago to believing that change can come about or freedom through singular and absolute acts of transformation. They are more inclined to see many individual and even modest acts and institutions as sources of change. They see a world of constraint rather than of growth, of trade-offs rather than of clear choices. Today's students are not, in my view, hostile to the ideals of liberal education, but they...