Word: discerner
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With Help I Am Being Held Prisoner, Westlake returns to the usual sequence, though readers may still think they discern film sprockets running down the sides of the pages. The hero, Harry Künt, is a practical joker, one of whose pranks has spectacularly misfired and landed him in prison. There he falls in with a group of cons who have access to a secret tunnel-not to escape by, but to use for a sort of shore leave to the neighboring town, where under assumed names they set up households, open charge accounts and join local bowling teams...
Seriously, the South isn't all cheerleaders, good ole boys and Baptist deacons, as you so richly imply. There is a new generation of Southern adults that well know how to discern a gator from a stump. You know, we've seen a good many gators down here. We just stay home when Nixon brings his carpetbags to town...
Ending the first sequence in the latest round of shuttle diplomacy in Damascus last week, Kissinger was hailed by Damascenes as "al mu'allim," literally the boss who makes things happen. Kissinger was not so sure the title fit, although it was difficult to discern whether Dr. Henry was genuinely worried or he was merely orchestrating results in a lower key now to prepare for more impressive results later. There was already "the shape of an agreement," admitted one spokesman aboard Air Force Two at week's end. But he cautioned that everything depended on how willing...
...A.M.A.'s Archives of Otolaryngology (a journal for ear, nose and throat specialists) that it observed an acupuncturist with 15 years of experience administer eight treatments to a deaf World War II veteran. Testing the man's hearing before, during and after the treatments, the researchers could discern no measurable improvement...
...watching the assembly of a giant national mosaic. Many of the parts we can discern, and we can see how they fit together. Many other events and personalities are still only vaguely defined, and the pattern of the past suggests that there is much to come which we cannot even imagine...