Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questioned, 61% rejected the four-day week (31% say yes, 8% had no opinion). Biggest single occupational group to turn thumbs down on the idea: farmers (76%); manual workers mustered the strongest approval (39%). Fifty-four percent of the nation's men opposed the four-day week. By contrast, 67% of the women voted against it-presumably to keep husbands from getting underfoot, or out of hand...
...peoples skilled in the law is therefore the greatest of all time. What we need is the development of the law of nations in our age which will first bind the countries of the world into solemn voluntary pacts governing their great interests on the world scene, in contrast to unilateral exploitations by the mighty...
...millions, is making great strides in the art of weather forecasting. In Hartford, Travelers Insurance Co.'s Meteorologist Dr. Thomas F. Malone has been working on an "odds system" of reporting, which tells radio listeners the precise odds on climate changes ("rain today: 6 out of 10") in contrast to the usual vague predictions. And even a small enterpriser like Houston's John C. Freeman Jr., 37, president of two-year-old Gulf Consultants, can make an important contribution. Two months ago Freeman completed a TV-sized electronic tide-telling machine, claims that it predicted...
With such evidence stacked against his client, Lawyer Williams took great care in picking jurymen, ended up with a working-class panel of eight Negroes, four whites. Then he proceeded to paint an emotional, vivid-hued contrast between Cheasty and Hoffa. Cheasty, went the Williams defense, was a "liar" and an "informer"; Hoffa was a man who "fought many battles for labor" and "never betrayed a trust." Jimmy himself took the witness stand and, with Williams asking helpful questions, blandly testified that he had hired Cheasty solely as a lawyer to help represent teamsters under investigation. Not until...
Reporter Kinmond, a Canadian citizen and thus unaffected by the U.S. State Department's refusal to allow newsmen into Red China (TIME, May 6), found a "nation in a hurry." a land of often violent contrast, where one-story brick huts jostle jerry-built skyscrapers, contraception clinics adjoin pagodas, Russian-built air transports load cargo from peditrucks. And, despite the chauvinistic pride that leads Communist functionaries and editors to date all progress from 1949, he found that "selfcriticism is almost a national phobia...