Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab leaders presented a sharp contrast: Mohammed in flowing white robes. Bourguiba in striped pants, morning coat and red fez. Outside the council room, shabby in worn mackintoshes, hovered two leaders of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), Belkacem Krim and Abdelhafid Boussouf...
...foresee 4,000,000 by spring). The only part of the U.S. economy that has dropped far enough to be in a serious recession is the stock market. It plummeted 19% to a low of 419.79 on the Dow-Jones industrial average before bouncing back a bit. By odd contrast, Wall Street ignored the 1953-54 slump, and prices on the stock market held steady...
...that is becoming increasingly appreciated in America. At present, the closest an undergraduate can come to a Regional Studies concentration is that of History and Literature. This program has at least two disadvantages for the person primarily interested in one region: first, the Department stresses history and literature in contrast to the more eclectic approach of Regional Studies, and second, History and Literature offers concentration only in the countries of Western Civilization...
Young teachers, Spindler said, come from middle class homes, and tend to hold "traditional" values. They accent absolute moral standards and the sanctity of the individual. The "educational subculture" of schools of education, by contrast, stresses social adjustment, Spindler stated...
...Southern California and in most other Western states they form a minority significant enough to swing many elections. The political wisdom of the Republican move was borne out in the 1956 campaign when the Mormon areas of the West voted more heavily for Eisenhower than in 1952, in contrast to the rest of the West...