Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weakness which is inevitable when each depends on itself alone. But the Soviet rulers practice, for themselves, something very different from what they thus preach to others. They have forged a vast domain. The Soviet bloc represents an amalgamation of about 900 million people normally constituting more than 20 distinct national groups. [In view of this] the United States does not believe in practicing neutrality. Barring exceptional cases, neutrality today is an obsolete conception. It is like asking each community to forgo a police force, and to leave it to each citizen to defend his own home with...
...signers of the "Chicago Draft" was Stringfellow Barr, former president of St. John's College at Annapolis, who represents a distinct segment of the world government movement. For Barr forgets about a political federation, at least for the time present, and instead faces the economic problems of the world's underdeveloped peoples. In Let's Join the Human Race he outlines a plan for a giant International development Authority, similar to this country's T.V.A. Clearly, the Cold War had driven Barr and others to Asia, where the need for food and medicine overshadowed vague plans of politized federation...
...also lives with legend. Says Smith: "We are still close to the pioneers in this country, and have distinct memories of origins. I think of historical figures as alive-and see places as if I were looking over the shoulders of the men who explored them...
...first place, you fool, you have to know what you want. And you don't, and probably never will. This puts you at a distinct disadvantage with the ladies, who know exactly what they want: lots of fun, lots of laughs, a bachelor's degree, and an intelligent, strong, pliable husband. Secondly, you have to know how to get what you're after (if anything)--which is the most difficult part. Every victory turns to defeat, and the spoils of victory vanish without a trace. They'll tromp on you, boy, they'll pluck your heart out and crack...
...Kasson that day just as General Eisenhower drove out, and I have a vivid memory of the excitement with which I was told that Candidate Eisenhower had not merely endorsed the support of basic farm prices at 90% of parity but had come out for 100% of parity. The distinct and, I fear, deliberate impression he had left was that he favored Government supports of 100% parity, while at the same time endorsing his party's platform pledge to abandon all production controls...