Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinct trend in the industry is toward ever bigger long-distance haulers; 20-ton giants and 42-wheel monsters are already at work. Yet, paradoxically, the days of the continent-spanning truckers may be running out because railroads are fighting back so successfully with their long-distance piggyback service, which last year took 500,000 highway trips away from trucks. The piggyback threat worries truck builders, but they see a bright side of it: there will always have to be truck tractors to deliver the trailers before and after their piggyback...
...story of the rebirth of the music drama that of the miscarriage of tragedy?" Leo Schrade asked at his third Norton lecture last night. Laying strict limitations on both forms, he called tragedy, an artistic medium quite distinct from other forms of drama with ideas peculiar to it, particularly the idea of fate. On this basis he refused to call medieval passion plays music drama and qualified the character of tragedy in Monteverdi's operas...
...decision of the High Court of Israel denying him the right to claim citizenship as a Jew is the common-sense observation that a Christian is not a Jew any more than a Jew is a Christian. The word Jew has a specific spiritual and cultural connotation historically distinct from the word Christian, though no one would seek to deny that the two great faiths have profound convictions in common...
...warn America that if it does not recognize the Yemen Arab Republic, I shall not recognize it!" The U.S. was not exactly cowed by Sallal's threat, but it was anxious to quarantine the civil war in Yemen before it engulfed the whole Middle East-a distinct possibility, with Egypt's President Nasser lined up behind Sallal and Saudi Arabia and Jordan supporting the deposed Imam Mohamed el Badr. Last week, after nearly three months of hesitation, the U.S. became the 34th nation to recognize the Yemen Arab Republic...
...presence of two distinct Negro groups here, the American Negro and the West Indian immigrant, also contributes to the lack of a cohesive Negro community "They are as different as a white potato and a sweet potato and there is very little communication between the two groups. Any civil rights group working among Boston Negroes should be fully aware of this split...