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He was "the onliest boxer in history people asked questions like a senator."

"It is the onliest conclusion I can come to."

This is woman's work, but I need somebody to hold the sword and palm and you're the onliest one around."

"The onliest thing I didn't like about following Willie was that every time he'd hit a burner, the pitcher would knock me down," he said.

Doors seem to open and slam shut for no reason, some of them after they've been locked, too, and I'm not the onliest one who's noticed things like that, either.

"An' this," she reached an arm behind her, pulling forth a girl at least ten shades lighter and thirty-five shades thinner, "is mah sistah's onliest gal-chil', Letty-Lou.

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, when Muhammad Ali was saying "I was the onliest boxer in history people asked questions like a senator," the Government considered him a dangerous role model for young black men who would follow the champion's example and reject the draft, or desert.

Having already achieved a measure of success in Memphis, he described himself as "the onliest one to drive himself up from the Delta" to Chicago, which he did, in his own car on the Blues Highway and with four thousand dollars in his pocket, a rare distinction for a black blues man of the time.