Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distant relative of Vienna-born Hedy Kiesler, who became Hedy Lamarr...
...incorporation will make no change except a slight darkening of the national skin. Eventually, there will be a few thousand black people in each generation, and they will probably have straight hair, thin lips and thin noses. "If some person now living," says Dr. Stern, "could return at that distant time, he would ask in wonder: 'What became of the Negro...
...lake, the 5 ft. 2 in. swimmer fought against 6-ft. waves, with the distant Toronto skyline now tantalizingly in sight. Her coach scribbled words of encouragement on a blackboard. "You quit and fail all kids," he wrote once...
...social outlook, Nigel recalls Peck's Bad Boy, while in some of his insights about adults, he might be a distant cousin of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. As created by British Humorist Geoffrey Willans and Cartoonist Ronald Searle, Molesworth could scarcely be more British, but Americans will still find him highly amusing, for the Boys' International cuts across all frontiers...
...Northwestern University's McGaw Hall, where delegates sat under high, bare steel arches. Yet there was a special kind of excitement at Evanston that could not have been created by organ music and pageantry: it was provided by the delegates themselves. Anyone who wanted to sense the distant scenes of Christianity's mission, the hymn of its work and the constant drama of its struggle for souls had only to meet the delegates...