Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they conclude, "we should be making a great mistake if we attributed Joan's greatness to organic disease alone . . . It is not her visions and voices, but her courage, her intelligence, her ability to get big things done, and her struggle for the independence of her mind which distinguish Joan and place her among the great women...
...Mobil oil gargoyle. In Bergman's camera, the most numinous and vital symbols are somehow diminished into mere ideas; but then the ideas seem marvelously clever. And strong religious feelings are dissipated into a sort of arty, romantic, death-wishful mood that is often hard to distinguish from sentimentality; but then the mood is unfailingly hypnotic. Such qualities, along with the fact that the film is beautifully photographed and composed, should make it a very special sensation for moviegoers who like an occasional exotic tidbit-in this case, something that often has the horrible fascination of a candied tarantula...
...recession an obvious union-busting plot. He charged that the plan is a scheme to drive up the price of G.E. stock, enriching top executives who "have secured stock free of charge as part of their profit sharing." Said G.E. Vice President Lemuel R. Boulware: "Carey is unable to distinguish between bargaining and giving in. Three years ago we gave in. Not now." What strengthened G.E.'s hand was the fact that in three key G.E. locals (Lynn and Pittsfield, Mass.; Schenectady, N.Y.), representing more than a third of the union's dues-paying membership, Carey could...
...inauguration last November, President Gettell delivered an address entitled "A Plea for the Uncommon Woman," saying, "If we fail to distinguish the uncommon from the common, fail to provide superior teachers for the superior students, fail to reserve the best education for the best qualified and most promising young men and young women, our failures will spell the descent of college education to the level of mediocrity...
Political Career. Named the republic of Lebanon's first minister to Washington and delegate to the U.N.'s founding conference in San Francisco, he helped draft the U.N. Covenants on Human Rights, won a name in the U.S. as "the good Malik" to distinguish him from Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik. Returning in 1955 to his Beirut university post, he was called back to public life as President Chamoun's Foreign Minister after the Suez crisis, charged with carrying out a policy that allied Lebanon more closely with the West than ever before. Though...