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1 " Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word “Woe,” which she handed out gaily declaring, “Woe is me. "
― , Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960
2 " What are you doing?” she cried in protest.“Playing,” he said, the single word rough, almost guttural. "
― Linda Howard , Up Close and Dangerous
3 " Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance. "
