Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course most of the folks who turned up at the second annual Sheep and Wool Festival of the New Hampshire Sheep Breeders Association can distinguish a ram from a ewe. Even so, plenty of them are parading around in costumes that instantly identify them as devotees of what is known in woolgathering circles as "sheep chic": sheepskin vests and coats, shepherds' jackets and lambskin caps...
Other HANA members said it is difficult to attract attention in the Square, because passers-by cannot distinguish between demonstrators and employees of local businesses handing out advertisement flyers...
...influence. As the black Africans readily understand, every member of the United Nations has the right to ask for foreign military assistance, which the U.S. has often provided to clients of its own choosing-notably Kenya, Sudan and Zaire. Many black Africans fear that the U.S. is unable to distinguish between Communist-backed but legitimate liberation groups and committed Marxist revolutionary movements. Asks one Mozambican leader: "What are you Americans fighting here anyway-Cubans or white supremacists? We ask you for arms because we are fighting for majority rule, and you turn us down. Now we are fighting for majority...
Most IAB "regulars" play gaily and probably log more court time than Supreme Court justices. You can distinguish one of these veterans by his entrance. If he immediately asks the nearest bystander. "Who's got the next game?" then you can be sure he knows the ropes. And, of course, an IAB "regular" never schedules classes conflicting with available court time during the winter...
...CHILDREN PASS through their narcissistic stages and develop into adults, it is the notion of entitlement which begins to distinguish the classes. Poor children feel "narcissistic despair," while rich children feel "narcissistic entitlement," Coles says. And for someone who has often wondered how the rich and even some of the not-so-rich students at Harvard can act so often as though they own the world, the word entitlement lingers, suggesting some sort of an answer. Entitlement does not necessarily connote material possessions which "spoil" a child--a child can be spoiled and not necessarily feel that everything...