Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with it all, there is a distinct dissimilarity between the performances of Earl and Huey as governors of Louisiana: what Huey wanted, Huey got; what Earl wants has begun to evade him with increasing frequency. Fortunately for Louisiana, Earl's predecessor, Governor Robert F. Kennon, led a successful campaign to amend the constitution so that a two-thirds legislative majority is now needed for all tax boosts, hence most of Earl's paralyzing tax increases seem doomed to defeat. But that does not mean that Earl will give up. When, after the hard-won reconsideration, his pari-mutuel...
Actually, says Philosopher Sidney Hook, from his point of view, "there is no distinction between being an intellectual and being intelligent." And-it may be fortunate that the intellectuals of America do not form a distinct group. "In the past, resentment against intellectuals was sometimes harbored by ordinary people-directed against the social status of the intellectual, rather than against his function as an independent thinker. I would count lawyers as a class of intellectuals sometimes distrusted by the people. Physicians, on the other hand, were never distrusted because their function came before their social status." Even the intellectual...
Characteristically, the Federal Reserve and its Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. said little about the operation, but the rest of official Washington greeted the news with cheers. Critics of FRB's previous tight policy took it as a distinct shift in FRB's thinking. Said one official: "The Federal Reserve is waking up to the facts of life. We've had too much choking off of economic activity." Actually, loans were no cheaper, but the FRB had increased the availability of credit at a time when businessmen could use more funds, notably to help pay off June...
...Distinct Wilt. But more basically, Dick Richards, long a bipartisan-minded supporter of the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy, feels a distinct wilt of enthusiasm because the Administration has never made ringingly clear where it is headed in foreign aid after this year. Said Richards: "Germany is lagging on rearmament. France is using NATO divisions and NATO equipment in North Africa. Great Britain is cutting down her own defense establishment and talking about abolishing the draft. Italy is talking with emphasis on economic and not military aid from now on. If that's going to be the attitude...
...most of its other meets, the Crimson is a distinct threat to sweep the two-mile, and to score well in the middle distances, the shotput, hammer, javelin, and pole vault...