Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were going on ail over Iran. Though crude and undemocratic by Western standards, the balloting process fits the pattern for Iran, which is backward, deeply infiltrated by a Communist underground and inexperienced at combating the enemies of democracy with democratic methods. The current elections were efficient and peaceful by contrast; in Mohammed Mossadegh's 1952 elections, the balloting lasted five months and at least 50 were killed...
...great deal has been said on both sides about the policy that has emerged from these promises. Dubbed the "New Look" in a speech by Admiral Arthur Radford last December, it has been hailed by many as a substantial innovation in defense policy. As if to stress the contrast with its Democratic predecessors, Senator Knowland wrote, "the doctrine is a departure from the policy of 'containment' which we have heretofore followed in recent years...
Poverty & Slime. Jack Webb's present fame and financial independence are in-triumphant contrast to a boyhood which he likes to say was spent in "poverty and slime." His mother, Idaho-born Mrs. Maggie Smith Webb, was divorced shortly after he was born. She took the baby and her mother to California-first to San Francisco, and then, as her money dwindled, to a shabby apartment in Los Angeles. They had a bitter struggle. Jack nearly died of pneumonia when he was four. Afterward he suffered with asthma so racking that Maggie or Gram often had to carry...
...featured fried chicken, peas, french fries, head-of-lettuce salad and Joe McCarthy. Also present: Dirksen, and later, Potter. Stevens started with a complaint about McCarthy's abuse of Zwicker. Retorted McCarthy: How could the Army explain the court-martialing of "a poor, brainwashed G.I."* in contrast to the honorable discharge it handed to a "Fifth Amendment Communist"−Peress...
...sheer propaganda, however, producer Walter Wanger has a masterpiece. The photography of Folsom's long, bare corridors creates an oppressive mood which is seldom relieved, and the contrast between the prison's cold mechanical routine and the sympathetic plight of its convicts is unusually effective. Wanger needed no stars to simulate these convicts, and except for Neville Brant as the chief conspirator, has none. Most of the cast has been supplied by Folsom's good-behavior inmates, whose rioting possesses a good deal of fervor and realism...