Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What did he see? "It was a very deep blue, but not exactly like night. There was a distinct contrast. Your view encompasses three distinct bands-the earth, the light blue of the sky and then the very deep blue of extreme altitude. At the altitude I normally fly-40,000 to 50,000 ft. -I can see hundreds of square miles of the earth's surface. This time, I took in ten times that much...
...blind to see, the effort of the industrial non-Communist world to supply capital to the underdeveloped countries has expanded astonishingly. Britain has doubled her aid in less than three years, Germany has more than doubled hers. The United States has been giving more purely development aid, as distinct from balance-of-payment-bailout aid, than at any time before, including the era of the Marshall Plan. The Cow of public capital to the poorer part of the world is immensely greater than at any other time in history...
...Poliovirus Vaccine to meet on its Bethesda, Md. campus to study reports of the oral vaccines' safety, potency and effectiveness. The evidence for the panel, headed by PHS's Dr. Roderick Murray, was confusing and often contradictory. The consensus: while live-virus vaccines, taken by mouth (as distinct from the killed-virus, Salk-type vaccine, which must be injected), are indeed promising, there is little chance that any will be licensed for general U.S. use until next summer or later...
...disastrous (the island's king, about to die of boredom, is assassinated), C-B flies out to compound the calamity, ably assisted by Gaillardia's Prime Minister Amphibulos (Peter Sellers), who embodies everything fine and honest in Balkan politics. Eventually, the U.N. (accompanied by a faint but distinct celestial choir) decides to partition Gaillardia, an act undertaken with marvelous literalness by painting a chalk line down its middle, ruthlessly separating sow from piglet, peasant from privy. To their horror, the British discover that a deposit of Epsom salts in the Russian sector is really cobalt. "D you realize...
Although France's "New Realists'' form one of the few distinct literary schools to appear since World War II. the movement is neither wholly new nor wholly realistic...