Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the council met, there was nothing to distinguish this meeting from a dozen others. In the assembly hall a blue and white banner over the platform bore the legend "love and security." A large likeness of the late, great Dr. Sun Yat-sen stared down with brooding eyes at bored back-row members who read newspapers through Chiang Kai-shek's opening speech. Unsuspecting General Ho Ying-chin made an ominous report on Japanese advances, conditions in the Chinese Army. Suddenly it, happened. General Ho reeled under a blistering barrage of critical questions...
...distinguish between the defeat of Japanese arms and Allied victory. The latter must carry with it deliverance of India from a foreign yoke. The spirit of India demands complete freedom from all foreign dominance and would therefore resist the Japanese yoke equally with the British or any other. . . . [British] promises for the future are valueless in the face of a world struggle in which the fortune of all nations and therefore of humanity is involved. Present performance is the peremptory need of the moment if the war is to end in world peace and not be the preparation for another...
...spite of its surface absurdities and wild overwriting, Rome Hanks is a noteworthy book. The qualities which distinguish it, and which led reviewers to praise its author's vitality, are 1) an acute disgust with the oversimplifications and idealizations of most historical fiction, 2) a pounding, repetitious style which, in 363 pages, develops considerable force, and 3) a genuine mastery of hillbilly dialogue. Readers who note how well Author Pennell pictures his plain soldiers, and how successful he is when he is not melodramatic, may wonder why he felt compelled to overload his book with lurid details, hope...
Finally a non-com had a look at them and came away with his heart brimming over with good will. "They were telling us," he said, "that you must learn to distinguish between National Socialism and Hitlerism. They say that National Socialism is a good thing, especially for Germany, but that to their regret as well as to anyone's, Hitlerism has perverted...
...rejecting Holman and electing Morse, many Oregonians were convinced that they had rendered a double public service. Holman, big of girth, white of hair, loose of lip, distinguished himself in Congress mainly by his absence from roll-calls (he was absent when Congress declared war, and missed 148 out of 239 roll-calls in seven months of 1942). But he managed to be present enough to distinguish himself in the making of intemperate attacks. These he delivered in a gravely falsetto voice which the Oregon Journal likes to call "a high tenor of protest. " High spot of the campaign came...