Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Russian laissez faire surprised those who had expected the Russians to be tough on all Germans. Actually, the Russians were tough on a selected few; but ordinary Germans fared better in the Soviet zone than in U.S. and British areas. If this contrast redounded to the Soviet Union's benefit, so much the better for the Russians...
Triumph has all of the virtues and some of the faults of Corwin's craftsmanship. It uses contrast effectively (a taut-voiced announcer says, The voice you hear will be that of the Conqueror: the man of the hour, the man of the year, of the past ten years and the next twenty-and a hesitant, uncertain G.I. voice speaks up). Corwin's text likewise relies on sharply contrasted images...
...direct contrast to Dr. Zlatowski, the second speaker, Professor Thaddeus Rasziuski, formerly of the University of Cracow, attacked the Warsaw Provisional Government as "a government organized in Moscow, by Moscow, and composed of a communistic element which did nothing to help defend Poland." After questioning the legality of the Lublin Government, Professor Rasziuski lauded the heroic efforts of Polish troops throughout the war, claiming that until these armies return to their homes and until Poland is "opened up to friendly nations and foreign press for unbiased study"-the real will of the Polish people cannot be expressed. "Poland today...
...Berlin. He repeated this 10 or 20 times in various phrases. He would say: 'I will fall here' or T will fall before the Chancellery' or 'I must die here in Berlin.' He reasoned that the cause was irretrievably lost, in com plete contrast to his previous attitude, which had always been: 'We will fight to the last tip of the German Reich.' "What reasons motivated his change of heart no one knows. He expressed the fact that his confidence was shaken. He had lost confidence in the Wehrmacht quite a while...
...contrast was instructive. When the Big Powers concerned themselves solely with the structure and interplay of world power, agreement was always possible. When they concerned themselves with the morals of power, agreement seemed easy in the preliminary stage of words (i.e., the Crimea declaration on Poland; some of the charter amendments approved last week). But when they got down to cases on such issues, the deep differences between the Soviet Union and its principal allies came nakedly to the fore, and agreement was difficult if not impossible...