Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Battlefield Credentials. Wearing blue coats to distinguish themselves from physicians, the Washington State Medex men take patients' histories, help give physical examinations, suture minor lacerations, apply and remove casts. In a recent survey of the results, eight doctors reported that last year they were able to treat 25,000 more patients than in 1969-an increase...
...heat of his own enjoyment of Miller's literary fields ("the fields of flesh and cunt"), Mailer loses some of his perspective and self-knowledge. He seems certain he can distinguish himself from Miller, certain that he and his age are looking for "an accommodation of the sexes," whereas Miller "calls out for an antagonism." In the heat of his own argument, Mailer seems to have forgotten the battles between the sexes whose corpses litter the fields of his own novels. Suddenly, the novelist who sees himself as a "general who sends his troops across fields of paper," the writer...
...almost every bank check, reserve nearly all scheduled-airline seats, scrutinize every federal income tax return. Computers help to diagnose illnesses, plan radiation therapy, and map a path for the brain surgeon's scalpel. One computer has synthesized the tone of a trumpet so authentically that experts cannot distinguish it from a genuine trumpet blast. In fact, the cybernetic sweep has reached so far that one harassed Manhattanite placed an ad last week in the New York Times begging computers to spell his name correctly: Ruben Morris...
...also feels betrayed by the angry poor who now mock his social concern: "He had used it to distinguish himself from the slobs of an earlier decade...
...geographer who has just returned from Kenya, says that NASA satellites could take a daily "picture" of game preserves to allow scientists to monitor the movements of herds swiftly and accurately. Since different species produce different amounts of body heat, says Sabbagh, satellites equipped with infra-red cameras could distinguish between one kind of animal and another. With satellite-provided information, scientists would immediately be able to determine animals' responses to environmental changes, as well as their adaptation to their habitat...