Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yesterday's incident was in sharp contrast to the first two days of the walk. With constant police protection, it had begun virtually undisturbed Saturday. The marchers paced through areas of Boston where demonstration earlier in the year had provoked serious violence. But this time, police stepped in immediately wherever there was a chance of a confrontation between the marchers and spectators...
...choice of a husband, Luci breaks another White House tradition. Without exception, her seven predecessors as White House brides took husbands who were mature, professionally established, wealthy, patrician, or all four.* By contrast, Pat, 23, has a modest background and an uncharted future. His parents, Gerard and Tillie Nugent, have lived for 25 years in a small orange bungalow with fake-brick siding in a blue-collar Waukegan neighborhood. Gerard Nugent, district sales manager for a mutual-fund distributor, is of Irish descent. Mrs. Nugent's antecedents are Lithuanian. They sent their tall, athletic son to parochial grammar...
...swaggering virility complicated by moments of fierce introspection. At times, though, his crisp British officer's manner lapses into a fair imitation of Jack Benny, as when he stands on the battlements with dervishes tumbling in on all sides and stiffly observes: "Well! Here we are!" By contrast, Olivier's Mahdi is a small masterpiece of single-minded religious insanity-the lambent black eyes never blinking, the measured voice conjuring up holy terrors from his private heart of darkness...
...Live. Supernovae are the most violent of a group of three exploding stars whose two other members -novae and dwarf novae-periodically flare up for a short time and then return to their original state. By contrast, a supernova is never the same again...
...From this far away," Pollack mused, "it's easy to be ingenious." But there is no real basis for believing the darkness on Mars is vegetation. Sagan and Pollack suggest instead that in the spring, some dust is blown off the continents, sharpening the contrast between the dark high-lands and the surrounding bright deserts...