Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like one of his characters, who said: "I found humanity on its last legs, devoted to fetishes, bigoted, barely capable of distinguishing good from evil-and I shall leave it intelligent, enlightened, regenerated, knowing there is neither good nor evil nor God nor Devil nor spirit nor matter in distinct separate-ness." Apollinaire's thoughts, attitudes and interests hopped from point to point with anarchic abandon: "Unsolved crimes, papal infallibility, and the new art of the moving picture inspired him equally." Blessed with true lyric talent, Apollinaire nevertheless "felt the need to jumble and rearrange his work in complex...
Most Alaskans assumed that as the territory passed into statehood, Governor (by presidential appointment) Mike Stepovich, 39, would stay (by election) right where he is, in Juneau's 30-room executive mansion. The assumption had impelling logic. Mike would run in place -a distinct advantage-and, if elected, could exert sweeping appointive powers to seed the new state offices with Republicans. But the new game of politics in an unborn state is not that logical...
...night to improve their supply lines toward the Syrian border, only to provoke such a heavy mortar barrage that their forces suffered an estimated 150 casualties. White flags suddenly appeared all over Tripoli's Moslem quarter and rebels in the port area negotiated a truce that represented a distinct advance for Chamoun's authority...
...confused with North America's ovenbird. Sciurus aurocapillus (a warbler). South American ovenbirds number scores of species, belong to a distinct family akin to ant birds and flycatchers...
...course, family Gruidae. The rarest and noblest crane of all is the American whooping crane, order Gruiformes, or simply Grus americana. Like other cranes, the whooping crane prefers life in a marsh, where it can munch away merrily on snails, insects, shoots, and seeds. The whooping crane is distinct from other cranes in that it has a longer neck, a wing span of up to seven feet, and only twenty-nine living examples...