Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against, Not For. So the Navy had no plan: it was just against the Army's plan. Flinty Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King sailed into it with all his guns blazing. A single military commander of armed forces (distinct from the civilian President) would be "potentially a man on horseback." Furthermore, said Ernie King, without batting an eye, the merger would weaken civilian control over the armed services...
...Polish Peasant Party, once the largest in Poland, began to show distinct signs of fission last week. Through the German occupation it stood stoutly against pressure from without; now it was splitting from pressure from within...
...increasingly large curricula and in the so-called course unit system prevalent in U.S. high schools, the Committee discovers "alienation of students from each other in mind and outlook because their courses of study . . . are so distinct, and the disjointedness of any given student's work . . ." as salient dangers...
...bees each. To protect the strain, the British Columbia provincial government has barred the importation of other bees into Squamish Valley. Entomologists fear that because the Squamish is a hybrid, its reluctance to sting may not last. But Feedham believes that by long breeding it has now become a distinct new strain. He looks forward hopefully to a honey-producing bee so gentle in nature that anyone could raise a colony on the back porch...
...your information: Grigori and Georgi are two distinct Russian names. The first corresponds to Gregory in English and the second to George. And calling Marshal Zhukov Georgi is just about the same as calling George Washington Gregory Washington...