Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What I would worry about,” Larimore summarizes, “is that with a lack of diversity in sports, we would effectively be looking at athletes—who spend so much time with each other already—in a special or distinct way, and saying, ‘These things are important for everyone except...
...things, an accretion of textured images and vagrant impulses. He's a master miniaturist, a creator of wistful anecdotes featuring, over and over, the same sort of people: fatalistic men and moody women who, for a poignant, painful, precious few moments, connect. He cocoons these beautiful losers in his distinct visual-emotional style. The mix of cigarette smoke and step-printed slow motion, furtive glances and liquored wisdom, lends ordinary anguish an almost majestic glamour...
...Sunday’s lineup can’t be passed off as easy victories, the Crimson heavyweights, barring major catastrophe, should should find an overall win well within reach. And if the varsity boat continues to perform as it has been doing recently, its individual success is a distinct possibility as well...
...until one withdrew—who are currently refusing all sustenance (except two daily cups of Gatorade) until Harvard complies with their demands. Or until they get really, really hungry and have to stop. The coalition’s hunger strike—which, according to participants, is distinct from a “death strike” in that none of them are prepared to die for their cause—is a response to some questionable labor practices by Harvard University that may have violated the Wage and Benefits Parity Policy (WBPP) that the University agreed...
...revered in Boston than in other cities. Perhaps this is because there is no Hollywood or Wall Street in our backyard, or maybe it stems from the working class, Irish and Italian immigrant roots of so many locals. Whatever the reason, it means that the New Englander craves heroes distinct from the highfalutin socialites and power-mongering business elites assayed endlessly in other cities’ tabloids...