Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of exams Harvard will be at a distinct disadvantage in the playoff action. Three Harvard players will miss the Friday game because of finals and seven will miss the Saturday contests...
...Thomson, an outspoken 46-year-old Scotsman who flew for the British Royal Navy in World War II, then spent 15 years as a commercial pilot before setting up Caledonian with five partners in 1961. Early on, Thomson established two major operating principles: he wanted the airline to be distinctly Scottish in character, so that it could emulate the success of other airlines with a distinct national identity; and he wanted a mix of chartered and scheduled services. In 1962 Caledonian became the first British airline to win a regular transatlantic charter license from the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board...
...felt that as a black professional, he would be needed to explain what "black people are doing and why they got there." A year later, Sims says that he feels less strongly about that particular goal. "This year has helped to convince me that Americans blacks are two distinct things--they're Americans and they're blacks, in that order," Sims said. "Unlike all other groups, except for Mayflower Wasps and American Indians, they are in a unique position. Blacks don't have a heritage except an American one. They are a people who have to make it because there...
MOST French-Canadian films are never exported, just shown in Quebec, where they appeal to Quebec nationalists presumably because they are made in Quebec, not because they capture a distinct national experience. My Uncle Antoine takes an anti-English stance, founded in economics not in race, when it depicts an asbestos mine near Black Lake, Quebec, where the managers are English and deliver their rebukes to the French-speaking workers in a language the workers cannot understand. At Christmas time, Jutra shows the villagers' holiday frivolity instantly transformed by the mine owner's two-faced distribution of little bags...
...chorus's the strongest I've heard and the throng has--Oh rapture!--distinct personalities! When alone chorus women can carry the beginnin' You can say a show's good with finality...