Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reunited by free elections, with free choice on whether or not to join NATO. Said NATO's commanding general in Europe. Lauris Norstad: "There must be absolutely no misunderstanding about the determination of this alliance to use nuclear weapons in case of aggression." Meanwhile, world Communism, by contrast, frustrated in 1958 by Secretary Dulles' firmness in Lebanon, Quemoy and now Berlin, was once more under heavy domestic pressure both in Russia and China (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...kissin' cousin" kinship Poteet claims for Steve, who dutifully has made her his ward. Poteet plays polo and coaches basketball, is always chaperoned when she travels with Steve. Square-jawed Steve gives his ward only the most brotherly kisses, has even punished her with a sound paddling. In contrast, Lolita confines her athletics to the bedroom, romps from motel to motel across the nation with her stepfather Humbert Humbert...
...size of a plum with a stalklike neck. If the neck is extremely narrow, fecal matter forced into the diverticulum will stay there, setting up an ever-present threat of infection and making the condition harder to detect since the barium used to get X-ray contrast may not penetrate the diverticulum sufficiently. In the symptom-free stage of diverticulosis there may be dozens of small diverticula scattered along the colon...
...good because he introduced a new conception of dark tones which gave power and force to the contrast of a few bright and brilliant colors...
...drive at Radcliffe, in contrast, was quite successful, according to Rothenberg. Almost all of the 132 students who pledged blood kept their appointments. This turnout set a new record, as Radcliffe rarely manages to exceed 100 pints...