Word: distinguishedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clunky platform shoes that are so popular today. They are palazzo pants-wide-legged trousers that fit tightly at the hips but swell to bell-bottoms as much as five feet in circumference. The flowing material is often draped so widely that from a distance the eye cannot distinguish between a woman in a long gown and a woman in palazzos. Says Irene Satz, of Manhattan's Ohrbach's department store: "They don't look like pants, but they...
...recordings of his heavily accented voice: "Things go on, inside you and outside you. We do not discuss emergencies or catastrophes-how often do they happen? We discuss daily life and nothing else. Daily life is something we should be able to deal with satisfactorily. I want you to distinguish clearly between outer and inner environments and the attitude you take. The attitude is yours! It can be changed, improved, omitted, manipulated. Events cannot. The only thing you can do is take an attitude that will not increase discomfort...
Peasants who previously had barely known what an airplane was quickly learned to distinguish a T-28 from an F-105: "In the eleventh month of 1968, two F-4H planes flew over and bombed my village for 45 minutes," writes a 16-year-old. "They dropped eight napalm bombs, the fire from which burned all my things, 16 buildings along with all our possessions inside, as well as maiming our animals. Some people who didn't reach the jungle in time were struck and fell, dying most pitifully...
...child at any stage of development." On the contrary, the Moores say, many children's powers of vision and hearing are still forming until the age of eight. Thus they find it difficult to focus on objects at close range, like a book, and to distinguish between similar letters, like m and n. The Moores also cite studies indicating that the nerve fibers connecting the various parts of the brain are not fully developed before age seven or eight. Hence younger children are ill equipped to learn arithmetic and other abstract skills...
Powell did not deal, however, with warrantless eavesdropping on foreign agents, which the Government has felt free to do ever since President Roosevelt authorized taps on suspected spies during World War II. "No doubt," said Powell, "there are cases where it will be difficult to distinguish between 'domestic' and 'foreign' activities directed against the Government. But this is not such a case...