Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward the drive for funds. "I am proud," he said, "to be a member of the same institution as those veterans in Grays and Matthews, who are barely getting along on $65 a month, but 90 percent of whom managed to give $1 or $2 to the drive. In contrast to these, there were men in Wigglesworth who argued for a whole afternoon in refusing to give as much as 50 cents...
Under the Joseph Urban sky of this 2½-mile-high city, the lampposts are gaily decorated with huge red, green and yellow rosettes with strings of light bulbs between. These were put up to celebrate Bolivia's Independence Day. The ornaments are in grotesque contrast with the spirit of the city...
...ashamed that her country, through progressive, intelligent industry has become the richest in the world? Is she ashamed of America because the nations of Europe, in contrast, have impoverished themselves through ignorance, intolerance, greed and hatred...
...wife of "one of the most important officials in the Ukrainian government." People in general were suffering and starving. But Julia Mikhailovna and her husband were as rich and well-fed as the Romanovs: "oriental rugs on the floor, tapestries and paintings, crystal chandeliers." Julia herself deplored the contrast. "You may not believe me," she said, "but I am opposed to all this gluttony of the leaders." Kravchenko begged her to reform, to flee with, him and live for her "ideals." "Don't be cruel, Vitya," she cried...
...University officials closely connected with the dining halls. Showing no conception of the spirit of the campaign, they have included more costly, and sometimes superfluous fruit to substitute for salad at dessertless meals, and have absurdly insisted on offering margarine and jam when there is no bread. In contrast, higher administrative officials for the most part have cooperated to the fullest and have turned over to the Food Relief Committee the $2400 estimated in advance to be the dollar value of the food reductions...