Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning of this year however, when the White House declared that data from the Hardtack II series of four underground nuclear explosions the previous October invalidated the findings of the Geneva experts. The main result showed that primary waves were weaker than expected and therefore were harder to distinguish from smaller quakes. The Russians steadily refused to study this data until last week, claiming it was merely an attempt by the U.S. to sabotage the conference. Certainly the way and manner in which this information was released by the U.S. appeared to be deliberately misleading...
...Deceptive Gloss." From the often lackadaisical FCC came the strongest pronouncement to date. Said FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer: "A failure to distinguish between the freedom to express . . . ideas and the indiscriminate hawking of wares . . . has brought the advertising and broadcasting industries to the brink of strict Government controls...
...Governor has no easy task. He must find issues to distinguish himself from Mr. Nixon. Yet he cannot afford to, nor, perhaps does he want to, do this by repudiating the Eisenhower administration with which Mr. Nixon must be associated. He has, therefore, been forced into taking positions opposite from those which he has been associated with in the past; positions basically more conservative and illiberal...
...sinful behavior, written by 36 authors (he contributed two). Most of the sinning in the book runs the familiar gamut from adultery to zealotry, but the special sins of the modern world make earthier reading. Moviemakers, writes the Rev. Salvatore Casals, should be careful to distinguish between evil and sin, and to depict sin as something more than inconveniently illegal. Worst offenders are those modern films which ignore the existence of sin, but even family life is often dealt with deceptively-and therefore sinfully-on the screen ("Child-rearing is absent from many films, or reduced to a single child...
Instead, they agreed that it is "necessary to distinguish between policy and philosophy," as Hoffmann said. Until de Gaulle withdraws from NATO operations Wald and Hoffmann suggest that his statement is just another expression of his preference for an associated rather than integrated defense effort...