Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration's repeated assurances that its prime aim in backing the contras is to stop the flow of Communist weapons into Nicaragua and from there into El Salvador. Said Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, explaining his vote last week for the antimining resolution: "We know that mines cannot distinguish between commercial vessels and those laden with Soviet and Cuban weapons ... With the destruction of each economic target in Nicaragua or in its harbors, our policy and its rationale become more tortured and tenuous...
...books on lying and secrecy have looked into some dark corners and therefore have been called "consequentia." I think you would disclose still more ambiguities if your third book were to deal with silence. Merely to show the implications of some primitive distinctions would be helpful; for example, to distinguish between the silence that gives consent and the silence that is the product of the fear to dissent--or the silence that comes when one cannot find words with which to express the emotion of release from some oppressive affliction and the silence that makes one an accomplice to such...
Five Crimson batwomen are expected to distinguish themselves throughout this year's campaign...
...police persist in arresting people for a crime that is widely viewed as victimless and rarely punished by more than a fine? Captain Joseph Craparotta, supervisor of the New Jersey narcotics bureau, answers, "We do not distinguish among drugs. We do our jobs." Indeed, many narcotics officers in states that do differentiate between hard and soft drugs wish the law did not. Sergeant Eugene Rudolph of the Los Angeles County sheriffs office complains that in his jurisdiction, marijuana is "almost as accepted as alcohol," and believes that "marijuana should be dealt with more harshly." He can take heart...
...shuts himself up at the house in a room that has no mirrors?"Mirrors make you pose," he has said?and cuts loose to his own music or to the Isley Brothers' Showdown, practicing what Dancer Hinton Battle calls "moves that kill. It's the combinations that really distinguish him as an artist. Spin, stop, pull up leg, pull jacket open, turn, freeze. And the glide, where he steps forward while pushing back. Spinning three times and popping up on his toes. That's a trademark, and a move a lot of professionals wouldn...