Word: distinguishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year and emphasized the fact that history texts make past events look like the products of superhumans and rigid ideals, when in reality most were the result of a fluid mixture of chance and compromise made by people much like ourselves. He hammered into us the need to distinguish between books and life when trying to learn about the world...
...white-coated physician leaned over his patient, holding a stethoscope to his chest, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. But one detail did distinguish the examination from those conducted routinely in Israeli hospitals: the paper pinned to the patient's left sleeve identified him as "Dr. Niksa. Hunger Striker. Orthopedics Department." Throughout Israel last week doctors were collapsing in emergency rooms or working with intravenous tubes hanging from their arms. Of the country's 28 hospitals most were handling nothing but emergency cases, and only four were functioning normally. The reason: 2,700 doctors, convinced that they...
...press officer. Even those who run with rebels in the tropics must find the perils repetitious after a while, the colorful characters melting into abstractions. In these times, a correspondent may move so quickly from Afghanistan to Beirut to Ethiopia, it is a wonder that he is able to distinguish the names of towns from Prime Ministers. Less a wonder is that these people sometimes grow hard around the heart; when you've seen one mutilation, you've seen them all. Still, as Arthur Koestler wrote of the war in Spain: "Anyone who has lived through the hell...
Watson's visit itself did not do much to help the industrialist distinguish himself from his dusty-haired namesake: Just moments after he began, a powerful downpour sent most of the audience fleeing for cover...
...humans who are supposed to press the buttons that start World War III. Poor WOPR (for that is its name) is an innocent. It thinks the war games it knows how to play are no different from chess and other harmless entertainments at which it is adept; it cannot distinguish between pawns and people...