Word: discern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...likely to be involved in so adventurous a mission again. Last week the salt-caked Kerkyra returned empty to the Greek port of Halkis, after carrying a load of cement to Benghazi in Libya on its regular run. Beneath the paint of the new name, dockside onlookers can still discern welded letters spelling out the old, outlined in cement dust. Scheersberg A has come in out of the cold...
...miracle cloth is moved periodically, and while most see what they consider to be the face of Jesus, others discern two kneeling figures or Jesus standing with a staffer the Virgin Mary. TIME'S Marion Knox, during a visit to Holy Trinity, observed "a vague impression of two eyes, a jaw line, a nose and possibly hair. It's perfectly visible, just as you can spot a horse in a cloud after someone has suggested it is there...
...director imposes a distracting new subtext that blurs, blots out or mangles the real text. In The Cherry Orchard, earlier this season, Serban altered the living space of Chekhov's drama to a kind of surrealistic all-white silo in which Mme. Ranevskaya ricocheted around without any discern ible contact with her beloved home...
...while the bishops resisted some of the most publicized Detroit proposals, they did promise to hold further consultations and, as Archbishop Bernardin put it, to "listen, learn, discern and make judgments...
...jokes and situations. "Our premise is simple," explains Lear. "God created Eve first, took out her rib and gave her a companion so she wouldn't be lonely. This was Adam. I think the audience will be fascinated to watch the endless role playing and, more important, to discern the similarities in the needs, hopes and fears shared by all human beings, regardless of gender...