Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given the desperate shortage of nurses in this country, the over-staffing of nurses at Stillman infirmary is unconscionable. The average daytime nurse-patient ratio at Stillman is 1:8 in contrast, for example, to 1:13 at Boston City Hospital where medical problems are much more serious. (Among the less educated and poor, people often do not go to a hospital until in or near critical condition). If this difference in ratio were fully reflected in a difference in medical care it might be justifiable, but many of Stillman's nurse-hours are employed making beds, serving cookies, filling...
...self-murder was stigmatized by the full force of church and state-a suicide's property was confiscated, his body was dragged through the streets and buried at a crossroads, with a stake driven through the heart (presumably to keep him from haunting the living). In Asia, by contrast, suicide as a form of renunciation has widely been considered admirable...
...contrast, said Black, the Florida law's words, "malicious and mischievous," narrowed its scope to one offense: willful trespass. Not only were the students guilty of just that, he said, but there was "not a shred of evidence" that the sheriff objected to their protest for any reason other than his legitimate concern for jail security. "Nothing in the Constitution of the United States," said Black, "prevents Florida from evenhanded enforcement of its general trespass statute . . . The state, no less than a private owner of property, has power to preserve the property under its control...
Sectarian Ambiance. By contrast, Maryland permits state-taxpayer suits -and starting in 1962, the Maryland general assembly created a state college-aid program that parallels the federal setup. Four bills provided $2,500,000 for new facilities at four church-related colleges-Hood (United Church of Christ), Western Maryland (Methodist), Notre Dame and St. Joseph's (Roman Catholic). All of the bills were challenged by 13 Maryland taxpayers and the Horace Mann League, an association of 500 public-school educators. The state court's decision, they hoped, would, by inference, hold the federal programs unconstitutional...
...extraverts, by contrast, enthusiastically described how the floor became wavy, the wall paneling moved like ocean waves, and the light fixtures became fluid...