Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...savors that wonderful, old feeling and talks about it with the same earnest enthusiasm he would invoke after a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth of a meaningless August game with the Phillies. Nelson made his love for the Mets as distinct as the not-found-in-nature color of one of his unlimited collection of hideous sport jackets...
Saturday's win marked a distinct contrast with the Crimson loss to Towson State University of Maryland Friday night in the semifinals. In that game, Harvard shot a woeful 27 per cent from the floor and added 23 turnovers...
Opponents dispute the convention on two distinct grounds. Sensibly, they say that the Constitution is no place to mandate a specific economic policy. If the budget-balancers succeed, they would join the distinguished company of slaveholders and Prohibitionists, the only other groups ever to write their interests into the Constitution. California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., the biggest national figure to support a convention publicly, wants to place a balanced budget requirement into the Constitution as a philosophical symbol of national discipline; but congressional budget-makers each year would have to work with that symbol, which could never be thorough...
...still be the only mime whose name is a household word, his style is no longer the only one visible on the American stage. The Mime, a performing artist on the margins of dramatic theater and abstract dance, can express himself through both forms, creating a wide range of distinct forms...
...help China is not a part of normalization. I won't disagree with that. On the other hand, normalization itself was brought about by a configuration of circumstances involving Taiwan. Both sides seemed to be ready to make concessions on the Taiwanese issue, and that made normalization a distinct possibility. The foundations of the overall relationships between the Soviet Union, United States and China were laid in 1971, and there have not been that many changes since then, at least as far as I am concerned...