Word: singular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today all that is changed. Suleiman is trying to get out from under the heavy-hanging title of 'god,' has dropped the plural speech, started speaking of himself in the third person singular. Those of his people rejoice who feared lest his insatiable appetite for wealth and power might have gobbled even larger sections of northern Syria and made him a frightful monster with a sway beyond his capacity of understanding. ... If Allah is kind and gives him strength to ride out his illnesses, he might even worm his way into the presidency of an independent sovereign Syria...
...jungle experience. They never solved Japanese tactics, never exploited the jungle. Casualties through disease and action approached 100% in the original units; replacements had even less training, hence the troops became rawer and rawer. Commanders were no more prepared for the jungle than their soldiers; they showed a singular lack of knowledge and imagination in their conduct of the campaign...
...Singular Merits." Herr Goebbels was exaggerating only a little when he crowed: "In the air war England holds Germany at the wrist, but in the submarine war Germany has England by the throat and it remains to be seen who will lose their breath first." In Washington, Navy Secretary Knox admitted that the Battle of the Atlantic had swung in Germany's favor in the last month. Said Frank Knox: "The situation is serious and a tough...
...breast of studious, thin-lipped Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz the Fuhrer pinned a ribbon last week "in recognition of his singular merits in the conduct of the U-boat war." The singular Doenitz had shifted his attack north and west. U-boats, out of range of land-based planes, were hunting again in the mid-Atlantic, sleeplessly athwart the lines to Britain, North Africa and Russia...
...Learn Spanish not only offers a Spanish vocabulary appropriate for ordinary use, but also gives listeners a chance to hear it used without pedantry. There are "heavy-duty" adjectives, outrageous word-fixing puns, "today's special," nouns that "walk out with" adjectives, phrases like "considerable jive in the singular," and a host of colloquial asides...