Word: discern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anyone who takes in the atmosphere along the perforated Berlin Wall today, declared Moisi, should be able to discern -- by the body language of the Volkspolizei on the Eastern side and the Berlin police on the Western side -- an extraordinary and palpable tug of togetherness. "The citizens of the German Democratic Republic really have a feeling of humiliation about being second-class citizens ((compared with their Western counterparts)), and that feeling can be ameliorated only by reunification." Opposing that process, suggested Moisi, would ultimately cause more problems than it would solve...
...world where one man who clearly violates the tax law gets elected mayor of New York while another gets put out of business and sentenced to jail, it's worth a few moments to try to discern what's going...
...agreement to partition eastern Europe, including Poland, between them. A few weeks after signing the agreement, the Red Army rolled into a Poland already prostrate from the German blitzkrieg. The Soviets deported thousands of Poles--including 14,500 officers--to Russian labor camps. Their motives are not difficult to discern; they wished to short-circuit any future Polish leadership...
...plane, and there is in fact just one Europe." From aloft the Solidarity leader could not, of course, see the very real partition of Europe into East and West. Nor could he detect the many barriers that still separate the countries of Western Europe. But what Walesa did discern is that Europe is changing fast: ideological divisions are disappearing, borders are blurring, and the Continent is coming together in ways that are forcing the rest of the world to take notice...
...think students would benefit from a real core curriculum--i.e., a set of fundamental courses, ordered, purposive, coherent," Bennett said. "I cannot discern such a core curriculum here...