Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, the Army's orders-is-orders syndrome led to comedy of the absurd in the case of Pfc. Joe A. Smith...
...British counterintelligence, who went over the wall in 1963. His purpose, he said, "was the fight for Communism" and the eradication of the many evils of capitalism, prominent among them "the expense-account lunch, British railways, the Beaverbrook press, the English Channel and the rising cost of living." By contrast, Philby added, "I am having a love affair with Moscow," marred only by one touch of staleness: "I am rather tired of caviar...
...contrast, the Pacific Eight's top four teams total only an average 92 points a week, while the Southeastern Conference leaders total 97, the Big Ten has 81, and the Big Eight and Southwest war horses are in the paltry 70s. Only the Western Athletic Conference at 105 per week and the Missouri Valley at 101 come close...
...contrast to Harvard and many other teams that rely on European and African students, Stevenson gets his boys from Long Island, with a handful from New Jersey and New England. This supplies him with players receptive to his equally aggressive coaching technique. The end result of this process is a strong. Well-conditioned team that is continually as rough, as hustling, and as anxious to win as any in the East...
...Little Walk. By contrast, Jackie's three days in Thailand were quiet and reasonably private, partly because, afflicted with a touch of the malaise that tourists frequently experience in Asia, she canceled several public appearances. She did manage some serious shopping, buying a 15th century bronze hand of Buddha, two gilt wooden hands (17th century), three porcelain cosmetic jars from the ruined ancient capital of Ayutthaya, and three solid silver bracelets made by Thailand's Meo hill tribesmen...