Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME says that Chicago police did not "distinguish between radical leaders, yippies, McCarthy partisans, and other disaffected youths." Do you imply that in the dark, amid yelling, bottle throwing and insults, while faced with thousands of milling people, the police could sort out the four groups and could then apply the appropriate kinds of restraint? You must be dreaming. You say that no one "could have known which windows [thrown objects] came from." No trick at all when you ask hotelmen to spot for you, as the police did. You are also casual about thrown objects that start from...
Daley's defense was, perhaps understandably, a self-justifying recitation of the debacle as seen from police headquarters. It portrayed the protesters principally as "terrorists" and "revolutionaries," made no attempt to distinguish between radical leaders, yippies, McCarthy partisans and other disaffected youths. "The dual goals of immediate disruption and ultimate destruction were pursued in Chicago against the Government under the guise of a protest against the war in Viet Nam," said the report. The press and TV, it went on, "responded with surprising naiveté and were incredibly misused...
Most of the characteristics that distinguish the Basques of Spain are mysterious. In vain, linguists have studied their tongue-trilling language, still spoken by a million Basques, for similarity to any other recorded speech. Medical researchers are still at a loss to explain why proportionately more Basques carry the Rh-negative blood factor than any other people. But since the days of ancient Rome, anyone who tried to subjugate the people of Euzkadi, or Basque Land, has quickly learned one fact about them: the Basques want to govern themselves. Finally brought under Spanish and French domination in the 19th century...
...series of heart attacks be gan in April when Eisenhower was in California. Two weeks later, he was well enough to be moved to Walter Reed, where he soon suffered three more. In their twice-daily reports, cardiologists tried to distinguish between "mild heart attacks" and "myocardial infarctions." At best, the distinction is difficult to make. Infarction is the process in which part of the myocardium (heart muscle) is killed by being deprived of blood. Even a mild thrombosis and occlusion nearly always causes some infarction, though it may be an extension of an old scar...
...cover story on De Gaulle [May 31], you failed to adequately distinguish between the average Frenchman's acceptance of De Gaulle's policies (e.g., decolonization and national independence) and his corresponding rejection of De Gaulle's archaic governing methods (e.g., suppression of government criticism). Le Nez est fini because the French people desire an end to his particular liberté, égalité, sénilit...