Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrations got out of hand, and the number of actors on the scene multiplied, the issues in the crisis became increasingly confused. The demonstrators' demands, however, boiled down to two distinct requests for decentralizing the authority of the school department...
...security in a job that requires no college degree. Often he aims to live far from the inner city-a lower-middle-class aspiration that produces white commuter cops who nervously regard black-ghetto patrols as raids behind enemy lines. According to Chicago Psychiatrist Clifton Rhead, a policeman needs distinct traits-a tendency to be suspicious, act fast, take risks, be aggressive and obey authority...
...students in the section. Teaching is a skill which can be developed if one is willing to work hard at it. Most teachers at Harvard are primarily researchers, they teach as a secondary or tertiary part of their occupation. We feel that teaching requires a separate and distinct skill which, while not inconsistent with research, must be separately and carefully developed...
...have to put my neck on the line before the opening whistle, not after the final gun. Second, as a Harvard man, I feel a certain obligation not to dump on the home forces. So, in a year like this one, which is not too promising, I feel a distinct pressure to "forget" that Harvard too is fielding a team each Saturday...
...Jerusalem community in Hale County is a fairly typical black town. New Jerusalem is not on any of the road maps, and it is a distinct mistake to ask local gas station owners how to get there ("Why you wonna go see them niggers boy?"). Most white visitors who find themselves in New Jerusalem are there by accident, having strayed off Country Road 21 on the way to Greensboro from Akron. The only white faces that appear regularly in the town are those of county sheriffs, looking for moonshine liquor...