Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like to chew meat or any food that takes time to eat-they're in too much of a rush." When Dr. Fisher advises teen-agers to cut down on foods rich in both fats and sweets-fried foods, ice cream, peanut butter, whole-milk cheeses (as distinct from cottage cheese), nuts and pastries, many of them set up an anguished wail: "Why, that's everything I live on." Dr. Fisher has another, admittedly impractical, prescription for his pimply patients: relax. Their acne, he notes, almost always flares up at such times of stress as high school exams...
Williams and Cavanagh are both solid supporters of the Administration's domestic programs; they both rather uneasily back the President's conduct of the war in Vietnam. The real difference between them is one of style and the way they look at politics. The difference between them is distinct to the politicians backing each candidate. Virtually all Michigan Democratic leaders favor Williams, while official Washington is generally rooting for Cavanagh. Only the sentiments of Michigan voters remain a mystery...
...these men and women? Many of them come from the Midlands, from Yorkshire, Manchester and Birmingham, sporting their distinct regional accents like badges-it is no longer necessary to affect an Oxford accent to get ahead. Some of the new voices have a cockney lilt; from London's own working-class East End come Actors Michael Caine and Terence Stamp, Playwrights Arnold Wesker and Harold Pinter, Television Magnate Lew Grade, Textilemen Joe Hyman and Nikki Seekers. Others breeze in from the coal-mining North Country. There are bluff Yorkshiremen like the P.M. or Actor Peter O'Toole, Albert...
...Distinct from engineers, who are concerned with design and construction, the applied mathematician generally confines himself to the mathematics of the problem, hopefully coming up with answers which are implicit in the engineer's end product...
...paper will still face competition from the New York Post, which by cutting down on its news coverage has managed to stay in the black. Hearst and Scripps-Howard expect their new paper to maintain the combined circulation of the existing two papers; yet these papers appeal to two distinct sets of readers. The Telegram is aimed at the commuter from the well-to-do suburbs; the more obstreperous Journal-American, with its line-up of combative columnists, is directed primarily at city dwellers. The Sunday Tribune, with its emphasis on arts and fashions, appeals to the city...