Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Christian describes the three gods in the Pantheon of his Church, the "three great gods of the universe," as separate and very distinct deities...
...associate professorship. Within, he plotted his escape from the controls that threatened his individuality. A confident master of bureaucratic judo, Kosinski eventually used the weight of official structure against itself. He invented four fictitious professors to use as references-each with his own stationery, rubber stamps and distinct telephone voice. "They were the four best friends I had in Poland," he says. To prove their friendship, his professors endorsed Kosinski's application for a passport to go to the U.S. for further study...
...really knows what causes cancer, which is actually more than 100 distinct diseases, all snaring two common characteristics: rapid cell growth and a terrifying tendency to spread from one part of the body to another. Most researchers agree, however, that the villain is a virus, a miniature packet of nucleic acid with a membranous coat that was shown as early as 1911 to cause tumors in animals...
CHINA. Soviet forbearance, claimed Brezhnev, has brought about a distinct improvement in Sino-Soviet relations. Trade has begun to increase between the two countries, and he expects a continued rise in the future. But subsequent Soviet speakers lambasted the Chinese -one described their brand of Communism as "repulsive"-creating a stir of disapproval among the North Korean, North Vietnamese, Japanese and Rumanian delegations...
...with the genetic material to develop into a child and then an adult. Can one pick out a moment in the process and say that up until then it was not human? The fetus is not, as some claim, just a part of the mother's body. It is distinct from her genetically and physically. It may not yet exent all the human faculties that it could later, but then neither do babies after they are born, children, the mentally deficient, senile people, amputees, or paraplegics. Are we to decide that they, for their own welfare or others' are better...