Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unexpected as the mediocrity of the main feature is the merit of "Counter Espionage." In contrast to a second rate musical, the spectator finds a gripping tale of espionage in blacked out London. To be sure. Warren William as the suave Lone Wolf saves the girl and the British Isles, but by that time half of the audience has collapsed from the suspense. His endearing side-kick, Eric Blore, ambles through the greatest dangers with obstinate indifference...
...reason for Tresidder's election is his good relations with Washington-in sharp contrast to those of Stanford Trustee Herbert Hoover and his onetime Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Wilbur. Said a Tresidder friend last week: "He knows the department heads and he knows their politics. He'll be able to tie Stanford into national affairs. Tresidder even gets along fine with Ickes, and if that doesn't mean he's got tact, nothing does...
...even stronger contrast with the significance ascribed by the news services will be the actual results of the conference between generals Giraud and De Gaulle, if the present discouraging reports are substantiated. Peoples of the United Nations have been waiting many weeks for a meeting that would bring a reconciliation of the differing plans and theories of these two French leaders. Only such a reconciliation can make all available French forces one harmonious unit ready to follow action most helpful to the Allied campaign. A far cry from this were the results of last week's conference, in which...
Coldly calculating U.S. insurance underwriters view the situation "with increasing pessimism." Rates quoted for cargoes tell their own eloquent story: for the transatlantic passage to west coast British ports, 10%; for passage to India via the Cape of Good Hope, 20%. In contrast are rates on shipping from the West Coast to Hawaii, where sinkings have been rare: 1½%. British civilians last week were warned to expect short rations, prepare themselves for a grim year...
...rates after CAB held a closed session with airline operators, broadly hinted the jam-packed U.S.-Latin American airlines were making too much money-especially in wartime. Next to get a similar hint will be U.S. domestic airlines, which hiked profits over 100% in the first nine months in contrast to a 30% decline in general corporation profits...