Word: singular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Champagne&Cakes. Elaboratelycourted in Moscow last week, Tito was exploiting his singular advantage with evident satisfaction. In the conference room at the Council of Ministers building, the customary huge portrait of Stalin had been removed in order that Tito should not be offended. Marching sternly through the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum in Red Square in his powder-blue marshal's uniform, Tito ignored the sarcophagus of Stalin, gave a passing glance to that of Lenin. His 5 ft. wreath was marked "To Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" from "Josip Broz Tito." At a workers' meeting at the Moskva Auto Works (formerly...
...Rome. After Il Tempo's reporter got his story, some action followed at last. Italian police arrested 24 men in Milan and charged them with "conspiracy with foreigners against the national interest." One was D'Allessandri. In Rome, Communist ex-Senator Reale continued to enjoy his singular immunity, and insisted he had done nothing wrong. Said he: "I'm not taking this seriously...
...Communist heroes go these days, a slim, hatchet-faced Hungarian army lieutenant named Sandor Iharos is a singular exception. For one thing, he is not a Communist Party member. All he knows about Marxism, he says, he learned by rote in school. And as a soldier he fights strictly from a desk. All Sandor really has to do is run, and he does that so well that he now holds five world records (from 1,500 to 5,000 meters). In sports-happy Hungary, excitement boils any time he shucks his sweat pants and gets to work, for Sandor...
...seems singular that a United States Senator, ignoring the whole constitutional history of our nation, can still insist, in 1956, that nullification is 'perfectly legal!'" he said...
...Friend, who won 14 and lost nine for the pallid Pittsburgh Pirates, wound up with the best earned-run average (2.84) in the National League, a singular and original honor for a cellar-club pitcher...