Word: difference
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...form decidedly is not. No long-limbed Balanchine girl she. At 5 ft. 6½ in., 160 lbs., Karpova's silhouette more closely resembles a sack of potatoes than a royal bird. The house shakes with laughter as her playmates, a brawny quartet of swans who differ vastly in shape and size, galumph through the imaginary forest. Disdainfully, the Black Rhinestone of Russian Ballet-as Karpova is called in the program notes-sinks into a deep arabesque penché, her broad washboard chest straining under her satin bodice...
...heart of Bailey's defense will remain his insistence that she had been brainwashed into cooperating with the S.L.A. He will call a number of leading psychiatrists to support his thesis, and Browning, in reply, will rely upon his own authorities (see box). If, as expected, the specialists differ about what happened to Patty's mind, the jury of five men and seven women will face a difficult task. They will first have to decide which experts to believe before they can make the key decision of whether or not they believe Patty...
...university. Some of Virginia's most prominent citizens are, or have been, members of both institutions. In fact, 150 of the school's faculty and staff currently belong to Farmington, including President Frank L. Hereford Jr., 52. But in one area, the college and the club differ completely. The University of Virginia admits and is actively recruiting blacks; Farmington does not accept blacks as either members or guests. Last week, after members had voted overwhelmingly to continue the club's restrictive policies, Hereford was undergoing pressure to resign from Farmington...
...lapse of 90 minutes to allow total absorption of the alcohol into the bloodstream, they began taking blood samples from the subjects once every 30 minutes over a three-hour period. The tests invariably showed that the rates at which ethanol disappeared from subjects' bloodstreams did not differ by race. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers conclude that there is no significant difference in the way Indians and whites get (or don't get) stewed...
Historians differ about just what set off the bloodletting: A scuffle over a brave's rifle, or perhaps a medicine man defiantly throwing some dirt in the air? But anyone reading Philos' document may hear a now familiar tone of self-justification and self-excuse: "... excesses occurred ... the actions of inexperienced, untested troops who were carried away in the heat of battle ..." As for the word massacre, Indian Historian Dee Brown (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee) declared that "when you fire on defenseless women and children with Gatling guns, I don't know what other word...