Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to the sideline antics of some coaches, Wilson sets an example for his players by his gentlemanly conduct toward referees. And to his own players he is usually straight forward and fair about their rank on the team...
...religious trumpeteering of Hollywoodish Billy Graham is a horrible contrast to the simple teachings of the Man of Galilee. Does anyone really know what Graham is saving us from...
Ultimately, both religion and psychology fail in their earthly mission, as Rose escapes her dilemna with suicide. In the last scene, however, a philosophical post mortem takes place, in which Greene contrasts the pessimism of the psychologist with the hope of the priest. Reinforcing this contrast is the subordinate theme of the heroine's two maiden aunts. Both Catholics, they have attempted to escape thoughts of death by closing all rooms in which their relatives have died. Presumably, Aunt Teresa's final decision to sleep in the living room where her niece has committed suicide represents Greene's idea...
...Charles Bohlen, "is in such flagrant contradiction of the facts that I am sure the Soviet Foreign Ministry will wish to change it." Even after a personal call from Bohlen, however, Foreign Minister Molotov showed no such disposition. Molotov in fact seemed eager to exploit the matter, in marked contrast to a recent hushed-up but far more serious, affair involving two British embassy employees who beat up a couple of Russian policemen, but were allowed to leave the country without fuss...
...projects in later years. The next two men would be on the Class Day Committee. And in order to insure the coordination needed in planning the Senior Week, the last eight representatives on the ten-man Class Day Committee would be the remaining top man from each House. In contrast, the Council would have the Permanent group take over the duties of both committees, with its bottom eight members elected on a preferential basis from the separate Houses...