Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed a revolution in England, it seemed to most of the U.S. (and still seems) a war for independence. The chief weakness of Triumph of Freedom is that Author Miller does not distinguish between the two. The revolution and the war of independence went on simultaneously, the war in the strategy of the armies, the diplomatic deals in France (very fully treated in this volume) and the actions of Congress taken by the colonists as a whole; the revolution in the property seizures of the patriot committees, the defiance of the riflemen to their officers, the punishment visited on Loyalists...
...Cultural Ministry, got new special appraisal of pictures, more witnesses, more bribes, another certificate, countersign-ers, paid export duty, received permit, entertained customs while packing, paid customs. It was pay, pay, pay-and then it was all over. "The only thing I learned from all this is how to distinguish between Communists and nonCommunists...
Beyond these two features the "Bunny Hatch" has little to distinguish it from the rest of the red-bricked edifices along Memorial Drive, mainly because no single activity has mustered much response in the House. Instead, Leverett men dabble in almost every pie around the University, without leaving much time for strictly House activities...
...Based" is such an elastic word, it is hard to distinguish fact from fiction. Everybody (especially Vladimir Sokoloff) acts like a character in a half-believable movie melodrama. But some of the things they do are so incredible that they are obviously current history...
...ideologist." He had a profound distaste for "isms." Therefore he was capable of as many twists and turns as he found necessary in the daily business of saving the Republic. But at the same time, Schuman never lost his quiet humanity nor his faith in men-qualities which distinguish him from the "Coco" doctrinaires of the Left and the gauntly pessimistic De Gaulle on the Right...