Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There Was a Time has the color-blind prose and inability to distinguish real emotions from salable affectations that were written all over earlier Caldwell works. But this time, instead of centering around rapacious industrial tycoons, it is a portrait of an artist as a young man. Frank Clair is born in the grimy English city of Leeds (Scottish-English Author Caldwell was born in Manchester); when he is still a boy, his parents bring him to the U.S. city of Bison (Author Caldwell's parents brought her to Buffalo, in whose outskirts she still lives...
...proposed change would empower the Secretary of State to screen arms buyers and distinguish between "aggressor and aggrieved, peacemaker and troublemaker." He could refuse licenses which were not "in accord with the foreign policy or the security interests of the United States." The embargo would apply not only to arms and munitions, but to anything intended "directly or indirectly" for foreign military forces...
...answer to a question concerning the right of Communists to hold labor union offices, Senator Pepper huffed, "I'm not afraid of anybody," and affirmed his "confidence in the ability of the American people to distinguish between foul and fair." He applauded our "traditional willingness to wrestle with ideas." In the Democratic Party (Pepper firmly opposes any Third-Party moves), his aim will remain converting it to a "truly liberal position which will really justify the two-party system...
...mother of two small boys, I find it hard to distinguish between pity and contempt when I read a statement like Mrs. Elmore's -"I am childless from choice" [TIME, March 10]-pity because she will never know or understand the pride and great happiness that can come only from watching one's own children grow and develop; contempt for her intolerance and ignorance and unsurpassed selfishness...
...church is to bring continuously the knowledge of God into the world and to bring the world to the knowledge of God. As men come to the knowledge of God, and especially as they come to the knowledge of God in communion with one another, they learn to distinguish ever more sharply between God's will and man's will, and they cope, powerfully and dramatically, with history...