Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Molotov never appeared without his flying wedge of guards and his interpreter.* Some of them were inoffensive consultants in his delegation, but they all spelled Ogpu to the onlookers. The contrast with Stettinius and Eden, striding carelessly through the lobbies, was too much for Americans, who often forget that three of their Presidents have been assassinated...
...radio's professionals came off better than the host of minor notables who were rushed to the microphones. Most painful to the ordinary listener was the cumulative effect of the politicos who cannot speak without orating and of well-meaning citizens who aired sincere and hollow banalities. By contrast, radio's shirt-sleevers distinguished themselves...
Back in Washington, at Franklin Roosevelt's regular press conference (see U.S. AT WAR), the Prime Minister sat just behind and to the right of the President. As always, he was impeccably and stiffly dressed-dark blue suit, Hooverish collar, black-ribboned pince-nez, dark tie-in contrast with the President's light green tweed coat, polka...
Confusion or Collapse? The Nazi fumble at Remagen was a sign of German confusion, but it was not necessarily a mark of collapse. The Remagen "accident," as Berlin angrily called it, was in sharp contrast with the well-handled withdrawal at Wesel. Resurgent Allied optimists who now predicted the war's end in a few weeks might possibly be right-but in the meantime it was well to remember that the Wehrmacht had been routed and broken last summer in White Russia and in France. It had recovered from both routs...
Constitutional Amendment. In contrast to the illiberal and unratified 1937 Constitution, the "Additional Act" provided for a republican form of government, direct suffrage by all Brazilians except soldiers over 18 years of age. But it still maintained the President's present power to decree certain laws and to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies. It kept the government in control of labor unions and said not a word about abolishing the hated Press & Propaganda Department...