31.   As Kiernan says in this honest and oddly affectionate biography, if she had never written a single word, we would still want to know about her.

32.   Asked to sum up each of his co-stars in a single word, Cleese smiles.

33.   A consummate semanticist, Sudman was fascinated by the way the outcome of a questionnaire could be tainted by the choice of a single word.

34.   A loan that is not repaid may be forgiven without a single word between parent and child.

35.   A memorial to the trade center victims in Princeton, N.J., where she lived, consists of stones bearing a single word to remember each one.

36.   A greenlight, as a single word, is a metaphoric step forward.

37.   A single word from him, even an inflection, can send the financial markets stampeding.

38.   A single word, a hieroglyph chipped on a stone in Egypt, could place Moses squarely within the framework of history.

39.   A single word propels the line of scrimmage and Epps into a sudden motion.

40.   A single word spoken by James Carroll during his first sermon would cause a rupture between him and his father that would never heal.