Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is part of the basis for Black's most fervent wish: that "development diplomacy be given a separate and distinct status" in the strategy of the West. If it is not, he warns, economic aid will continue to be used as it has been in the past: "as a reward for a military alliance or a diplomatic concession, or as a last-ditch attempt to retrieve a diplomatic miscalculation... Economic aid, after all, does not just subsidize people; it influences events...
...increase in the growth's size-by hemorrhage, cell destruction or infection. But for the patient who had a tumor and didn't know it, this might be helpful, not harmful. In other cases, physical trauma in the tumor area, said Dr. Auster, may even have a distinct beneficial effect: by destroying the cells, it may cause the tumor itself to heal...
There are many people in this country genuinely concerned over internal security. And there are some--whose number should be greater--who are at the very least equally concerned with the prevention of war. Internal security and disarmament are two issues, they are distinct, and they must remain...
...years Dr. Peale, from the pulpit, in his syndicated column and in his books had championed a saccharine philosophy, far removed from bigotry. It was a distinct shock not only to Catholics but to many non-Catholics to see him lined up with, and offering leadership to, the forces of prejudice, the agents of hate...
Many newborn babies in hospital nurseries pick up the highly infectious "hospital staph" germs, but what happens then divides the infants into two distinct groups. In one, the staphylococci cause such obvious signs as boils. These cases are moderately infectious to those in contact with them. The other infants show no sign of illness, but are surrounded by such an aura of pullulating bacteria that they are called "cloud babies...