Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figure, the ratio of enemy dead to those of the allies was worse than 7 or 8 to 1. Of the 28 provincial capitals seized across the country, not one remained totally in enemy hands. An astonishing total of more than 5,000 Communist suspects were taken. By contrast, the allied dead numbered 2,707-920 of them Americans, 1,733 South Vietnamese and 54 other allied soldiers...
...pick a site where the sun will be at least 7° and no more than 20° above the horizon in back of the LM crew when they swoop down. From this position, the sun will illuminate the surface in a way that will bring out the most contrast, making it easier for the crew to land safely...
...ideas are certainly challenging enough, but Miller has failed to give them enough dramatic substance, substituting instead a logjam of self-justifying tirades. The lives of Vic and Walter, and the price they paid for their choices, are merely described, not dramatized. By contrast, Willy Loman's fate had an anguishing impact because of the subtly manipulated flashbacks in Death of a Salesman, which brought key moments of his personal history to overpowering and believable life on the stage...
...sharp contrast to the low-key U.S. approach was North Korea's pugnacity. Speaking in Pyongyang, the capital, Soviet-trained Premier Kim II Sung warned that he was readying his military machine for a full-scale war that "may break out again at any moment." Reinforcing Kim's threat, the Soviet Union ordered a powerful 13-vessel squadron into the Sea of Japan as a counterforce to the strong U.S. task force there. While the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise moved from a point 45 miles off the North Korean coast to about 100 miles in a tension-easing...
...contrast, John B. Fox, director of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans, said, that Dow "confirmed by letter last year on April 4" that it would visit Harvard on February...