Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tanks & Survival. By contrast Chicago-born Emmanuel Viviano, 47, aims more to please than disturb, uses brilliantly stained glass to match the plumage of eagles and gamecocks. Tom Hardy, 33, a onetime sheep rancher in Eugene, Ore., takes his inspiration from animal forms. Theodore Roszak, 48, a wartime aircraft and armored tank designer, turned his back on an industrial design career to study "primitive, simple survival characteristics, for instance, how a plant survives in the U.S. Southwest...
Workable But Not Liberal. Guatemala's new code, by contrast, gave every promise that the pumps will be clanking soon. It, too, adopted the 50-50 formula and other major provisions in the world pattern. Three big oil companies-California Standard, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), and Conorada Petroleum Corp. (a combine formed by the Continental, Ohio and Amerada oil companies)-seemed ready to sign...
...should not ignore the fact," Molotov was droning on, "that present-day international relations are marked by considerable tensions which are aggravated periodically by propaganda for a new war . . . constant stockpiling of atomic and hydrogen weapons . . . large-scale construction of military bases . . ." By contrast, said Molotov, it was the "peace-loving countries" that had terminated the wars in Korea and Indo-China, the deadlock on the Austrian State Treaty, the long quarrel with Tito's Yugoslavia...
Wall Street Journal: Suppose the settlement had been on the basis of the company's proposal, which would have enabled the workers to buy bonds and Ford stock. Is a company-paid dole preferable to ownership in the company? By contrast with the Ford offer, the settlement the union demanded and got is a throwback to a darker age of labor relations. Yet, because the union leaders arbitrarily insisted on this one preconceived plan, they could not even consider alternatives that might have been far more valuable to those they represent...
...seniors will receive their degrees summa cum laude, in contrast to only one three years ago. Together with magna and cum laude degrees, the number of seniors receiving their diplomas with honors will approximate the 48 percent of last year...