Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next three days. The 'Cliffe will square off against eleven teams in eights and twelve others in fours. The national women's championships are not a strictly collegiate event. Consequently, the 'Cliffe rowers, many of whom are in their first year of competitive rowing, will be at a distinct disadvantage when they meet veteran rowing-club teams from across the country...
...towns, including Newark and Gary. That is not surprising, because those cities have black majorities. But last week brought the most dramatic evidence yet of black political progress. Los Angeles, the nation's third largest city, elected its first black mayor, although the Negro population is a distinct (18%) minority. City Councilman Thomas Bradley won because enough whites regarded him not as a black politician but simply as a man deserving of their vote...
...decision by Ottawa was a distinct disappointment to Washington, which had urged the Canadians to stay on, arguing that in another month or so many of the frustrating problems of the ICCS might be resolved. Convinced that Canada's decision is final, the State Department has sounded out Brazil and Mexico as possible replacements...
...million whites. Average salaries for nonwhites have risen 30.5% in the past three years, v. a 17.5% increase for whites, but the black average is still only about one-eighth the typical white scale. And the U.S. firms that have been raising black pay and benefits dramatically are a distinct minority; many American companies still hire black workers at minimum wages as startlingly low as $50 a month...
ALTHOUGH Schwarz-Bart is dealing with an epic subject at minimal length, telescoping action and using primitively direct means to etch his characters, he nowhere descends to type. The various slaves and Frenchmen are distinct individuals as well as symbols; a major reason for the purity of Solitude's anger is her heritage, developed beyond that of most other slaves. The fantasies of slave-owners are indictment enough without the glaze of the author's own rancor, and one of the oppressors is almost sympathetic, with strong psychological motivations for his actions as a slave-owner (his father had been...