Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grounds, warning them to hold their fire and not endanger the lives of the internees. Creeping along the buildings for what seemed an eternity, Mydans and I reached the main building where the windows were filled with excited faces. The internees were yelling so loudly we couldn't distinguish anything they were saying...
Many foreigners confuse Costa Rica with Puerto Rico. This does not bother the Costa Ricans so much as the more common failure to distinguish between their peaceful republic and the rest of Central America-which last week continued to tremble with political earthquake shocks. Costa Rica, they insist, is a very different cornucopia of good things...
...TIME'S phrase (which conformed to impartial Capitol opinion) was prompted 1) by Senator Gillette's voting record (straight down the isolationist line against Lend-Lease, revision of the Neutrality Act, etc.), and 2) by the need to distinguish him from such impassioned new-line Democrats as Claude Pepper and Joe Guffey. Never to be confused with such clamorous isolationists as Ham Fish, Iowa's well-liked, forthright Senator Gillette,"apparently not too old-line to change, was appointed to the Senate Committee which last year wrote the Connally Resolution on postwar world cooperation...
This period of silence has not been marked by inaction on the part of the boys with their $15 pay raise jingling in their pockets every month. They have already commenced to distinguish themselves in various lines of endeavor; some in the classrooms, under the new Harvard influence in their lives; others in the brighter spots of Boston, under other influences, no doubt; and still others over the local telephone system...
They first encountered reality at Makin. They did not distinguish themselves. After Kwajalein they were packed back to Pearl Harbor to rejoin their own group for more training. In March the Rippers were sent off again, this time with their bomber and torpedo squadron colleagues of Air Group Two, aboard an Essex-class carrier...