Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regular alphabet. Strictly a teaching tool, it aims to overcome the disparity between the sounds that English-speaking tots know in their heads and the symbols they see on the page. In essence, the child confronts a decoding problem. Unhappily, the code is crazy. The 40-odd phonemes (distinct sound units) of English are spelled in 2,000 different ways, and the letters vary bafflingly in their capital, lower case, printed and handwritten forms...
...Polite. The civil rights fight is a perfect case in point. In it, Mansfield must contend with three distinct groups -a pro-rights alliance of Northern Democrats and liberal Republicans; a segregationist bloc of Deep South Democrats, plus such G.O.P. right-wingers as Texas' John Tower and Arizona's Barry Goldwater; and the fence riders, mostly middle-of-the-road Republicans who approve generally of civil rights but would like some amendments to the bill that passed the House by a 290-130 vote last month...
...that apparently did not bother Bobby, who was already considering yet another career. There was a "distinct possibility" he might some day run for office, he said. If he did, he certainly could count on home-town support. Last week Baker was named a Pickens County delegate to the South Carolina Democratic Convention later this month. Said Baker: "People that know you and respect you and like you, even if you had done something wrong, will still be for you. They know me in Pickens...
...various editions, John Kennedy's Profiles in Courage went through 65 printings, sold more than 3,000,000 copies, and hit the bestseller list during three distinct periods: right after it was written, when he was a Senator; after he was elected President; and after his assassination. Now a memorial edition seems likely to keep the book in the No. 1 spot for quite a while, and not least of all because of a brother's-eye-view foreword by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Excerpts...
...appendage, attached in the manner of a subscription renewal card. On the card was a black and white picture that showed a bust of Thomas Alva Edison surround ed by some half-dozen of his inventions. What made most readers stop and look twice was the picture's distinct illusion of depth...