Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still in high school, so I expect to grow up with rock, age with rock and die with rock. Who knows? Maybe a millennium from now, if there is an ear that hears, no one will distinguish between Beethoven's Ninth and Alice Cooper's Dead Babies. One thing is for sure: rock is not ephemeral...
White's basic arguments apply with double force to Popkin's notion of a scholar's privilege. Even today it is difficult to distinguish a scholar from a non-scholar--after all, most of us have written term papers in our time. And who is to say that any man on the street will not write a book before Popkin, at the customary leisurely scholarly pace, gets around to publishing his findings. In a country of well-educated and supposedly inquiring citizens, Popkin's claim to be an "exception" by virtue of his occupation borders on the offensive...
...villagers gawked and giggled at the activity, assembled en masse before the thatched huts. At first there seemed to be no sign of the troops holding the barrio. Only after spotting the floppy jungle hats, ubiquitous badge of counterinsurgency, could one distinguish them from the villagers. They were stripped to the waist, dangling their M-16s with that insouciance which seems universally to characterize men in jungle combat. With the chopper unloaded and the formalities exchanged, we took off again. The whole visit, one small episode in the campaign, had lasted less than three minutes...
When his students' basic reading and writing deficiencies became apparent, Monro scrapped traditional ideas and defined several fundamental skills needed for college level work-- "I want them to think critically; to distinguish between the idea and the supporting detail." For example, he tested his students' vocabulary skills on those words used most frequently in the English language. Almost all the students lacked vocabulary control at the frequency group containing "a word like 'anxiety.' Now how can you deal with the idea, which is so central to the black experience, if you don't know the word?" Monro began immediately with...
...Partial color blindness, a genetic defect that affects over 8,000,000 Americans, is an incurable affliction. But for those who suffer from the most common form of the disease-the inability to distinguish between reds and greens-a Waltham, Mass., optometrist named Harry Zeltzer now offers some relief. He has found that a red contact lens, designed to be worn on only one eye, improves color discrimination. Zeltzer and other optometrists have prescribed the new lens for some 50 men, most of whom report that they can now distinguish colors they have never before seen...