Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contrast With Harvard
...visitor to the campus-like surroundings of the "HICOG" office is strongly aware of the contrast with the wainscoting and small-pane windows of Massachusetts Hall. At a beautifully-landscaped estate on the bank of the Rhine, the offices occupy several large buildings of the same design as Harvard's Commons. The only thing missing is the World Tree...
...perfect contrast to the forbidding Cross personality was the winning way of Ed Muskie, who toured the state three times in a handshaking Maine-Street campaign, and-a Catholic himself-managed to find a way to weld together the French-Catholic and the Yankee nonconformist Democrats...
...people, noted Unionist Harry Earnshaw, "appear happy, well-fed, and smiling-in cheerful contrast to the gloomy faces of the people in Moscow . . . We saw no evidence of hunger or famine. Indeed, it would be impossible for the people to work as hard as they do if they were not receiving adequate food." Old China hands among the correspondents disagreed: "All gaiety and charm have disappeared," wrote one. "There are obvious signs of starvation amongst many potbellied, naked little boys and girls sitting apathetically beside gutters...
...There is no pretense that everything is all right yet. That is an engaging contrast with Russia, where we were always assured that they are ahead of the whole world in everything...