Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a full-fledged coach, guaranteed daily practices, (including double sessions during freshman week) and the drawing power of varsity status, the Crimson will surely improve its calibre of play and position in the Ivy standings. "We've been at a distinct disadvantage in the past playing against teams with much larger budgets and extended seasons," said senior Marlene Schoofs, adding, "I think we'll surprise everyone this year. I'm very optimistic...
...decline, and even the disappearance, of some once great American newspapers is to those who love the craft of newspapering like the personal loss so many travelers felt when the great transatlantic liners disappeared. Those big liners had their distinct personalities-the French liners with their exuberant meals, the reliable and stately Queens. Newspapers had decided characteristics too, in the days when the Philadelphia Bulletin jauntily advertised that in Philadelphia NEARLY EVERYBODY READS THE BULLETIN, when the Washington Star faithfully reflected the "cliff-dwellers" in the nation's capital. Later, attempting to change with the times, but perhaps...
...mind a brightly specific montage of players and plays accumulated over the years, recombines them in purely speculative fantasy: "Ruth bats against Sandy Koufax or Sam McDowell ... Hubbell pitches to Ted Williams." Angell has written about one of the mysteries of baseball's attraction: "Its vividness, the absolutely distinct inner vision we have of that hitter, that eager base runner, of however long ago." No other sport, he remarks, "yields these permanent interior pictures, these ancient and precise excitements. Baseball is intensely remembered because it is so intensely watched...
Unlike the U.S. shuttle, each rocket can be used only once. But Ariane has one distinct advantage. Aided by the boost it gets from launch near the equator (where the earth's surface velocity is greater than at higher latitudes either north or south), it can carry payloads to an ideal parking place, 22,300 miles above the equator, in what is called geosynchronous orbit. At that distance, satellites remain fixed over one spot on the ground, permanently in line of sight of antennas. The U.S. shuttle can reach a maximum altitude of only 690 miles, and additional boosters...
Last week's letter from the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee to its Polish counterpart was a graphic and forbidding message, couched in the distinct language of Communist doublespeak. To understand the Soviets' criticisms and quarrels with Poland's "socialist renewal," opposite words must, in the fashion of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, be substituted: for "free and independent," read subservient; for "counterrevolution" read reform and democratization; and for "protection of the socialist commonwealth" read intervention by Warsaw Pact forces. Excerpts from the letter, as translated by the New York Times...