Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television stations? Specifically, the law that prevented convicted felons from owning broadcast properties? If we persisted in publishing the Pentagon Papers, the deputy attorney general went on, and if we refused to turn them over to the Justice Department, we were laying ourselves wide open to criminal prosecution (as distinct from the civil suit then in progress to prevent us from publishing the papers) under the Espionage...
Four men from Missouri, including retired Ad Executive W. Marshall Giesecke, dropped off four cartons of 34,000 responses to their national campaign for support that included ads in 69 newspapers. "The New York Times got the worst damned response of all of them," reported Giesecke with a distinct twinge of pleasure. The visitors handed Nixon a letter from a 72-year-old lady imploring the President to "stay in there and fight." Nixon beamed. "Well, what do you know about that...
...cannot begin to find a solution to problems until we stop looking at things piecemeal, he said. In his speech on "Is American Society Outsmarting Itself?" Slater said, "The system is not functioning--to look for a distinct malfunction is pointless...
...wind players, the sackbut was mellow but distinct; it was very effective as part of the continuo at the end of the Magnificat. The recorders suffered from lapses of pitch endemic to the instrument (in the Ave maris stella), but recovered in the next movement. The three cornetto players overcame an instrument infamous for its difficulty. Their stunning passages of imitation in the Magnificat were the most impressive instrumental display of the evening...
Where does this leave the bicyclist in Cambridge? If not with physical superiority to all the automobiles, at least with a distinct aesthetic superiority. While an automobile is a true pig among vehicles, a bicyclist can go farther with less energy than anything else, manmade or natural. What with the traffic in Cambridge a bicycle will probably also leave you where you want to be faster than anything else...