Word: distinguished
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...still be echoing." But the press assault on the trip was not unanimous. "That some of the men buried at Bitburg were members of the SS . . . does not make the visit less proper," argued the Houston Post. "Those men are dead, killed fighting as regular troops . . . Death does not distinguish among them, any more than it distinguishes them from Nazi victims." The cemetery stop, contended the Atlanta Constitution, demonstrates "this President's desire to put the atrocities and tensions of the past behind him and shift his focus to the radically different world community of the 1980s--where it belongs...
...wall of logs, stacked like cordwood," Urquhart recalls. "But as I got closer, I saw it was actually unburied corpses." British soldiers discovered nearly 10,000 such corpses, as well as mass graves containing hundreds of bodies plowed under by bulldozers. But it was difficult to distinguish the living from the dead. According to an English reporter on the scene, "dead bodies, black-and-blue and bloated, and skeletons had been used as pillows by sick people," who were themselves living skeletons. It was, said Georg Diederichs, a postwar governor of the region, "a gigantic death camp of apocalyptic proportions...
...sleeper issue at the Conclave," says Father Richard McBrien, a professor of theology at Notre Dame. "I think it should go to the top of your list," says Catholic University's Ferme. Although little-discussed outside the church, there is one area in which the papabili may wish to distinguish themselves by openly criticizing John Paul's legacy: Rome's centralization of power at the expense of its local managers...
...where it is taken for granted that everyone is straight save a few well-marked exceptions who are rarely ever worth mentioning. But the more people assume, the more arched eyebrows at same-sex couples walking down the street, the more stares at students whose genders are difficult to distinguish, the more gossip about people coming out of the closet, the more discomfort about mentioning one’s queer gender or sexuality, the fewer such mentions, the more people assume...
...thing they don’t do together might distinguish HRSFA from most other on-campus social organizations. “It’s a place where people who don’t feel comfortable drinking feel comfortable,” Cohen says...