Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to TV's boom, radio was tightening its belt. The number of sponsored evening shows was off 37%, compared to four years ago, and many a current big-time program was threatened, by the economy...
...Jones, Gypsy Smith, Sunday himself-Graham and his entourage looked disturbingly like something out of Hollywood. His sharply cut double-breasted suits and high-decibel ties, like those of his Co-Evangelist Grady Wilson, 30, and black-haired, 26-year-old Platform Manager Cliff Barrows, were a smooth contrast to the rumpled, homespun approach of the old school...
Ebbw Vale. In contrast to Eden's cautious doubts, Bevan was in a mood of exuberant confidence when he got back to his sister's house in Tredegar. His wife Jennie Lee called him from Cannook (in Staffordshire), where she was running for1 reelection. Said Nye to Jennie: "Everything's fine here, my sweet. How are you -exhausted...
...close-trading Clarence H. Wright, president of Sunray Oil Corp., offered him approximately $44.8 million for his Barnsdall stock, Odium took it-and with it a cool $12 million clear profit for Atlas. It was one of the quickest major in-&-out deals in Odium's history. By contrast, he spent 17 years tinkering with the management of Manhattan's Bonwit Teller fashion store before he sold for more than $10 million a block of stock which had cost him less than $1,000,000. And after buying into RKO in 1935, Odium kept the company under...
...theatre-goers who expect rapid exposition and geometric relevance of every line to the ultimate "point" of the play. But the play would be much less powerful if it were otherwise. For example, it is important that the emptiness of the major's marriage be established early as a contrast to later happenings--and that requires time...