Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...activities have mushroomed. Latest expansion is the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina, which will cost $1,250,000,000. The engineers who are building it believe it is the greatest construction project in world history: bigger than the Panama Canal or the Great Wall of China. The contrast between the quiet of 1901 Constitution Avenue and the spectacular activity along the Savannah hits any visitor...
...contrast, heavy snow, icy roads, and a rail strike forced Registrar Sargent Kennedy to pardon last February's late-comers. He termed the hindrances "acts...
...evidence from the New York Times's then-China Correspondent Brooks Atkinson (which had, ironically, been written in Service's defense), stating that Service "never permitted me to see classified material and was cautious and guarded about matters he considered confidential." Said the board: "The contrast between his treatment of Jaffe and his treatment of Brooks Atkinson ... requires no comment. To say that [Service's] course of conduct does not raise a reasonable doubt as to Service's own loyalty would, we are forced to think, stretch the mantle of charity much...
...more serious work, and even for the fanciful "Ring Around the Moon." For "A Phoenix Too Frequent" does not contain the well-constructed plot and incisive characterization which marked much of Fry's early work. It does, however, have a great deal of situational humor and a masterful contrast of high and low dialogue...
There were plenty of technical problems, including the theoretically fatal one of an all-male cast. Billy Budd, the innocent young sailor who represents good in the allegorical struggle with evil, stands in sharp contrast with the wicked Master-at-Arms, Claggart. But Captain Vere had to be "tidied up," made into a more central symbol of conflict: he knows that Billy was framed, but he also knows that under the Articles of War Billy must hang for striking Claggart...