Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Propper, who played her father, did not distinguish himself during his brief appearance...
...ready to accompany Ike to a Washington dinner, Milton wheeled his black, air-conditioned Imperial sedan into the White House driveway. Once or twice a week, he makes the 45-minute drive from Johns Hopkins to Washington. Often he stays overnight, and the Upstairs Red Room (so called to distinguish it from the main-floor parlor known as the Red Room) is generally kept ready for him. In the privacy of the presidential bedroom, the brothers can unbend over a drink or two-Scotch and soda for Ike, a bone-dry martini for Milton-furl sleeves, lounge coatless...
...into light and radio waves after an explosion. They could even pick up the light pulses resulting from a blast in space. ¶ The seismic method, which with astonishing accuracy has already detected the size and location of underground explosions thousands of miles away. Main drawback: seismographs cannot always distinguish between a nuclear blast and an earthquake, though differences between them are now being studied...
Daily Lesson. So far, Rome's response has been gentle. Having no lines of communication with its captive flock in China, Vatican officials explain, the church cannot distinguish clearly between Chinese priests forced to collaborate under extreme duress and those who merely succumb to ambition...
While assuring everyone that he is "nothing like as erudite as my hero," he admits: "I find it increasingly hard to distinguish myself from him these days." Like the detective, Rab Raphael-now the British Treasury's chief press officer-is musically literate; he may read through the scores of Beethoven's Rasaumowsky quartets while traveling or sing a Schubert sonata in the bathtub. Says he: "I always sing the left-hand part of a piano piece or the cello part in a quintet. You can hear the whole thing that...