The single-word/multi-word distinction involves what is most plausibly a difference in terminal elements among items of the same category type (e.g. adjective phrases).

The piece of meat was served to him by the chef in the previous area of gruesome activity which was the slaughterhouse..kappas grew confident as the prize's value was raised. And the man gave a morsel of live cowmeat to the gently hoisted head. The eyes rolled into action and he could find the life then pervade his nostrils like a bad drug.

I said that I did not believe anyone could write any way except the very best he could write without destroying his talent.

That's when NASA, in the midst of the Mercury space flight program, put the cabosh on our women's astronaut program.