Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opinions and feelings regarding their homes, parents, friends, the police, the courts, and so forth. By talking about themselves, the boys began to think about themselves, about what they had done, and about what the future might be life for them. Over the months, their conversation typically passed through distinct stages, from apathy and despair to insight and transformation...
...OPTIMISM : I can see more distinct ly how much my interior life is dominated by these twin peaks: an unbounded faith in Our Lord, as animator of the world; and a clear-eyed faith in the world (particularly the world of man) as animated by God. I feel that my mind is made up to declare myself a 'believer' in the future of the world in spite of appearances, in spite of a false orthodoxy that confuses progress and materialism, change and liberalism, the perfecting of man and naturalism. My sole ambition is to leave behind...
...informed physician, the bones tell a story the child is too young or too frightened to tell." Since child beating is almost always repeated, X-ray signs of fractures in different stages of healing are almost always a strong indication of parent-inflicted injuries. "The radiologic features are so distinct." say the Colorado doctors, "that other diseases generally are considered only because of the reluctance to accept the implications of the bony lesions [bone injuries...
...Negative psychology seems to characterize the general mood," reported New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. in its latest monthly survey of business conditions, "and a peaking-out of business before the year's end is now being discussed as a distinct possibility'' ("peaking out" is a positive-psychology way of saying "recession...
...York's Board of Regents tried to censor the four-letter word as obscene. Not so, ruled the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court last week. The term is what the junkies use when they mean snow, and that makes it realism, as distinct from obscenity...