Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rename it Jinnahabad. Karachans, however, did not welcome Pakistan with the wild enthusiasm that swept the new dominion of India (see above). After all, Pakistan was the creation of one clever man, Jinnah; the difference between a slick political trick and a mass movement was apparent in the contrast between Karachi and New Delhi...
...pretty well stocked up with canned goods." Yes, the Senator had accepted other Pan Am hospitality. He had had three breakfasts at the house on Washington's F Street which Pan Am maintains as its executives' headquarters. That house, said the Senator, is also "very modest," in contrast to T.W.A.'s "palace" in Arlington, Va. (a 20-room affair with eight bars, he said). He did not like to be critical of Pan Am, but he wished the committee would go and look at Pan Am's F Street place-"It has a toilet...
...popular feeling: Coventry should be rebuilt in the English Gothic form with a traditional stone nave vault and plenty of stained glass. Since the job will take years, the architect should be young. Above all, added the commission, the new cathedral "should not be in violent contrast...
...Stalingrad Ratio. What is the reason for this striking contrast? The more I saw of Russia, the more I was convinced that it was because Russia's leaders put machines ahead of men, industrial recovery ahead of human recovery. Perhaps the clearest example of the coldblooded way the Kremlin handles Russian reconstruction is Stalingrad...
...been wounded by a hair-treatment ad, and demanded balm. "The Thomas Scalp Specialists," Slapsie charged, had labeled him a "pouty puss" and suggested that he looked that way because they couldn't restore his hair. Further, they had published a picture of him as a contrast to a picture of wavy-haired ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer. Slapsie wanted...