Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, our campaign reporters do find moments of relaxation. Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo, for example, found it a distinct pleasure to stand by idly while Vice President Humphrey jogged for exercise during an airport delay. The scene was a welcome contrast to her regular beat. "When covering Lady Bird," she says, "reporters are expected to join in the jogging...
...city editor. He became a senior editor of TIME in 1956, and an assistant managing editor in 1961. He has edited every department of the magazine, sat in often as acting managing editor, and supervised much of the general flow of editorial administration and production, all with distinct benefit to TIME'S staff and its readers. The title of executive editor has not appeared on TIME'S masthead for some years, but seems exactly appropriate for Jim-a first-class executive and one of the most thoroughly professional editors in Time...
...They are part of a distinct minority. Of the more than 60,000 Vietnamese living in France, only 700 actively support Hanoi, and only 53 signed recently circulated documents affirming their support of the North and of the National Liberation Front. Of the 150 Vietnamese restaurants in Paris, only five are Communist-run, most notably the Tavern of the Green Dragon and Uncle Ho's, a student hangout...
...Shaw) confers with Churchill on the best tactics to follow. Cherwell, Churchill's friend and wartime scientific adviser, is presented as an eminence noire who, with a kind of icy diaholism, determined the Prime Minister's policies on both Sikorski and mass bombings. This again is at distinct variance with the historical record...
...most squirrelly member of a pandemoniously eccentric household. The grotesque English public school system did little for him except inspire the literary decapitation, in Eminent Victorians, of Dr. Thomas Arnold, the spartan Christian of Rugby. By the time Lytton reached Cambridge in 1899, he was a distinct oddity-a gangly, shrill-voiced, germ-ridden, manic-depressive esthete, caustic as lye except when caught in the eternally adolescent marshmallow bogs of homosexual passion. "Duncan Grant is the full moon of heaven," he wrote to Maynard Keynes, who was one of his earliest friends and confidants. In fact, Keynes was something more...