Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the swimmers at the Nationals have concentrated on a particular event, and for that reason they have a distinct advantage. For example, Krause once held the world record in the 1650-free for the miraculously long time of one year, but he has not been doing heavy distance work this winter. Nevertheless, he has to be rated a threat...
...wore blue jeans, a blue shirt, a brown vest, and glasses. His shaggy brown hair curled around his ears. The door to the room squeaked open just wide enough for the head of a girl to stick in. From beyond the door came some giggles, and then the distinct Cambridge twang of a high school student floated into the room, "Look, they're playing dead...
...running events were a distinct disappointment for Harvard. Middle-distance ace Keith Colburn drew a slow heat in the 1000-yard trials and failed to make the finals. Colburn atoned with a stirring 1:51 anchor leg in the two-mile relay final to erase a forty-yard deficit and gain fourth place...
Without stretching historical parallel too far, one can perceive in world events today certain startling resemblances to those times devoid of international order. A distinct strain of nasty, small-scale, almost personal violence among nations is emerging. The taking of hostages, for example, is becoming more and more popular: witness North Korea's use and abuse of the captured Pueblo crewmen or China's 19-month detention of Reuter's Correspondent Anthony Grey. There is also Ghana's jailing of the crewmen of two Soviet trawlers on suspicion of espionage. More recently, armed...
...better treatment from the Saigon government. Thieu promised that they would "be accepted with equality. You have returned in justice because your aspirations have been met." The Montagnards will be given a voice in the provincial governments and be allowed their own military units. But there was a distinct cloud over the ceremonies: FULRO Leader Y Bham Enuol, who had reportedly given full assent to the agreement, was the prisoner of a splinter group of FULRO dissidents in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. Without Y Bham, who is venerated by Montagnards, the chances of a genuine reconciliation...