Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noble aspects of our involvement in this unfortunate land. Having spent nearly a year as a physician with the Army here, I have seen the deplorable state of Vietnamese medicine, and I have been embarrassed and angered by the feeble efforts of our government in this sphere. In striking contrast to the dismal record of governmental bureaucracy is the progress of the religious organizations; and though I am by no means a religious man, I am proud of what these Americans are doing. I speak with special feeling of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission Hospital here in Saigon. In this...
...important demonstration, especially so in contrast with the marijuana test case that was going on at the same time. It was almost a reaction against this formalized, institutionalized method of attacking the drug laws. It just ignored the law, and it got away with...
...jealously to ward off invaders. Thus, at last winter's annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, the published Proceedings give the impression of discussions primarily centered about how to teach a particular subject rather than discussions of research strategy, empirical findings or conceptual elaborations. In contrast, at the sociology meetings in San Francisco at the end of August, among 95 organized sessions there was only one small informal luncheon devoted to the teaching of sociology, and another, very sparsely attended, to innovation in higher education generally...
Cheerful Skewering. By contrast, their early music had exuberance and an occasional oasis of unexpected harmony, but otherwise blended monotonously into the parched badlands of rock. I Want to Hold Your Hand, the Beatles' biggest hit single-it has sold 5,000,000 copies since 1963-was a cliché boy-girl lyric...
...contrast, the dispatcher continues his express schedule of seductions, this time with the railroad telegraphist. During one encounter he playfully imprints her rear with a German occupation stamp-an indelible gesture that scandalizes her mother, who promptly trots daughter all over town, showing the handiwork to anyone who will look. Eventually, the crestfallen dispatcher is brought before a rubber-stamp congress of officialdom to account for his shocking behavior. Brandishing photographic evidence of the misdeed, a Nazi bureaucrat asks: "Miss Svata, is this your behind?", and prates about the "defamation of the German state language...