Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While listening to the Democratic convention as continuously as I followed the Republican convention, I observed one striking contrast . . . The Democrats are looking backward on the events of the past, the Republicans are looking forward on the events of the future...
...Russian major also hoped to climax a section on 17 of the world's greatest political thinkers with a contrast between "Socialist Structure and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat" and "The Unbalanced Structure of Capitalism." Protested the Englishman: "Then I think it's hardly worth putting Jefferson in at all ... in this one-sided view of history." The Russian's feelings were hurt; 83% of the men to be studied, he said, "represent theories thoroughly unacceptable to the Soviet Union." But he finally backed down and settled for a big section on "Countries with a New Democracy...
Haganah officers who had served with the British in the Jewish Brigade in World War II listened grimly to familiar British commands, given in a cool, clipped English voice, over the Arab communication net. With a deadly precision in sharp contrast to the inefficiency of Arab volunteers, the Arab Legion laid down heavy mortar fire. Haganah girls crawled out on the battlefield to bring in the wounded...
...better campaign. He had shown the voters a new rough-&tumble, folksy Tom Dewey who was a surprising contrast to the stiff, over-stylized candidate of 1944. His hair was sometimes ruffled. He sounded friendly...
...letter, said Stalin, was "the most important document of recent times;" in contrast, the Smith-Molotov conversations had been inadequate. The Wallace letter made "an open and honest attempt to give a concrete program for a peaceful settlement...