Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prompted a moving ovation from thousands upon thousands of Poles with his all-but-unheralded arrival in Warsaw (see FOREIGN NEWS), striking a dramatic contrast with the coolness of Khrushchev's own reception three weeks before...
...mood of her songs varied greatly. Her deeply moving performance of the Irish "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye," the song from which we get the more familiar "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," left the audience breathless. In sharp contrast, her version of "There's a Hole in the Bucket" drew loud laughs...
...keeping with the nation's mood, Administration officials are talking behind the scenes about the heady possibility of a big surplus in the President's next budget, perhaps $6 billion or even more -in contrast with the $12.6 billion deficit piled up in just-ended fiscal 1959 and the skimpy $100 million surplus estimated in the fiscal-1960 budget. As Administration economists and budgetmakers see it, spending in fiscal 1961 will creep up to about $80 billion from the current year's $77.5 billion, but the soaring economy may produce revenues as high as $86 billion...
...adjectives. He began with several works probably familiar to many members of the audience, including the excellent "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World," and the sharp and effective "Voice From Under the Table." Later in the program he moved to most recent works, with a neat contrast between two love poems, "Someone Talking to Himself" --very world-renouncing and romantic--and "Loves of the Puppets," in the same vein as "Voice from Under the Table." His song from the musical "Candide," Dr. Pangloss' song on "the sunny side of venereal disease," was the most entertaining moment...
...steel industry, the BLS report pointed out that the good life takes less effort all the time. In 1913 a BLS survey of the steelworkers' working conditions showed that 40% regularly worked 72 hours a week or longer. Their median income was less than $12.50 a week. By contrast, the most recent figures on 1959 steelworkers' pay show average weekly income (for 40.7 hours) of $125.36, with the union (see above) threatening to strike for more...