Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fortunes wax and wane-and Australia's mostly wax, while the U.S.'s mostly wane. The Aussies have won the Davis Cup in eleven of the past 13 years; the U.S. has not even reached the Challenge Round since 1959. But last week U.S. fortunes took a distinct turn for the better. The U.S. team had already beaten Mexico and Britain handily. Now it needed only to get past India in the interzone finals to challenge Australia...
...close to the policies of the opposition party. If he moves to cut back social security, he will give the Socialists a legitimate issue for the 1965 campaign. In either case, he would need consummate political skill to manuever around his opponents and toward his policies. He has shown distinct reluctance to taint his hands with such manuevers, but he will have to. The cry of "let the Fat Man handle it" will surely be repeated. It is not so sure that he will want...
...Inheritance. As Erhard moves from behind his semiprivate smoke screen into the Chancellor's office, he faces several distinct disadvantages. Though enormously popular, he has no electoral mandate from...
...were, by immutable tribal lore, much more severely restricted and as a result, somewhat at a disadvantage. Here, the girls of marriageable age were, by time honoured edict, by a veritable law of the Medes and Persians which changed not, segregated and formed into a compact mass, separate and distinct, "of" but not "in," the ranks of the general audience...
...distinct from 13 recognized "private" factors, which have been found only in certain families...