Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter before the Providence junket was over a year ago, when he was already stumping the land to feel out his prospects for '76. He was in Dallas, where he was giving his Christian testimony to a packed house of the faithful at the Southern Baptist Convention. The most distinct image I recall from the occasion is that of a mouse-like man with a choir-boy's face and a Sunday schooler's plaintive, sincerely righteous voice, leaning in to the mike to tell of his conversion experience and waving somewhat embarrassedly to the throng of Baptist delegates...
...Herbst and a team of Boston doctors discovered that daughters of women who took diethylstilbestrol (DES), an estrogen compound, during pregnancy to prevent miscarriage had a distinct tendency to develop vaginal cancer...
...said that the climbers who made it to the summit felt a distinct emotional letdown after their feat...
MUCH OF THIS BOOK'S criticism is political, but Kozol has no distinct political or theoretical position. He leans to the left, but never identifies his ideological beliefs: it is impossible to tell whether deep down inside, he is a closet social democrat, Maoist, or, what seems to fit best with his style of wholesale criticism, anarchist. It is difficult to discern the underlying basis of Kozol's critique--or to discover if he has one at all--for he fails to offer solutions to the problems he describes in such detail. In the closing paragraphs of the book, Kozol...
According to L.O. and the new Social Democratic party program, the time has now come for the third phase of the socialist movement. First came political democracy, then social welfare, and now economic democracy. The new campaign has two distinct parts, the first of which is well under way. The second part is just beginning to come under discussion but may eventually be more significant. The first part of the program is an attack on managerial prerogatives, symbolized by Paragraph 32 in the rules of the employers federation. The campaign began in earnest in 1971, with the L.O. convention calling...