Word: distinguisher
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...weather pictures taken by Tiros satellites and on rocket photos of the Earth. They pored over purposely fuzzed-up pictures of relief maps of Southern California. By matching their conclusions with the known features of the areas they studied, they learned how to judge distances and sizes, how to distinguish contours from shadows and reflections...
...virtually impossible to distinguish between the Viet Cong and non-communist Vietnamese," he explained, and as a result. American military men in Vietnam indicate a growing mistrust of all Vietnamese civilians...
...this may sound like Big Brother, but even civil libertarians are convinced that Gallati's ideas will, in fact, safeguard rights by enabling police to distinguish between veteran crooks and first offenders. "If a quick check shows you have no record," says Gallati, "the desk sergeant will simply give you a summons to appear in ten days." For suspects with criminal records, on the other hand, the system will work like a one-way magic carpet-to the clink...
Music had small charm for Donald Morton. He could not read a note; he had difficulty recognizing tunes; he could not easily tell the sound of one instrument from another. He could not distinguish between an orchestral performance and organ music. Still, by the time he was 35, Morton had learned all too well that there was some music he could tolerate-and some he could not. Loud, fast songs-college marches, the 1812 Overture, New Orleans jazz, rock 'n' roll-went, in effect, in one ear and out the other. They left him unmoved. On the other...
Until recently confined to footnote-marbled pages of scholarly journals, the new eucharistic thinking has just recently seeped out into the open-and led to predictable whispers of heresy. In May, the Dutch bishops issued a joint pastoral letter warning Catholic conservatives to distinguish between the unchangeable truths of eucharistic doctrine and the theologians' right to interpret them. Last month, at Italy's National Eucharistic Congress in Pisa, Paul VI warned against "elusive interpretations" of the traditional doctrine. While willing to heed the edicts of the Pope and the criticism of other theologians, the eucharistic innovators are confident...