Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played a foresighted and honorable role; it sensed popular anger at dictators in Argentina. Colombia and Venezuela, and stood quietly but firmly against them. Last week the church in Cuba shifted adroitly into opposition to Strongman Fulgencio Batista by calling for a "national-unity government" to replace his. By contrast, the U.S. State Department has sometimes had an unhappy knack of appearing to back the dictators. Former Inter-American Affairs Chief Henry Holland publicly hailed Peron as a "great Argentine." Secretary of State Dulles took time during one of his two visits to Latin America to pay a courtesy call...
...contrast to your article, the World Affairs Council did not offer any explanation, official or other for the cancellation. Although advised by Chartrand, the CRIMSON reporter never contacted the Council on this matter, and in contradiction of the CRIMSON, no official or other explanation was made...
...When I contrast the actual facts of American life with such portrayals as those of Mr. Khrushchev at Minsk and indeed of your latest communication to me.'' wrote President Eisenhower to Russia's Premier Bulganin, "I am impressed more than ever before with the enormous difficulties besetting us in attempting to move toward better relations and with the greater necessity than ever before of doing so." So saying, the President last week sprinkled a generous measure of salty common sense into the bubbling chowder kettle of speeches, letters and rumors that have been steaming up the need...
...girdles. On Fleet Street last week the national dailies smarted under circulation losses totaling more than 1,000,000 a day since they boosted prices to tuppence ha'penny (3?) last October. Sunday papers and general-circulation magazines dropped 4,000,000 weekly in the same period. By contrast. Britain's women's magazines are faring better than ever...
...caller was Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov, Russia's new ambassador to the U.S. A foreign-trade specialist who persuasively sold the Soviet trade-plus-aid approach as ambassador to India, Envoy Menshikov, 55, is conspicuously suited to the Kremlin's peaceful-coexistence line. In black-and-white contrast to his dour, clam-mouthed predecessor, Georgy Zarubin, he flashes a wide and easy smile, spouts friendly sentiments in fluent English. Upon arrival in the U.S. a fortnight ago, he promptly declared himself an ambassador of "peace, friendship and cooperation." Last week he paid courtesy visits to Vice President Nixon...