Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very contrast between the small parts and the ghastly consequences of their failure in the worst U.S. air disaster would have been troubling enough. But other events stemming from their discovery were also unsettling. The Federal Aviation Administration, the governing body of U.S. flight, quickly ordered inspections of all 138 DC-10s still flying for U.S. airlines. Ernest Gigliotti, 31, and Lorin Schluter, 39, two conscientious United Airlines mechanics, found metal filings as fine as dust on one DC-10 in Chicago. Suspicious, they did the natural thing: they shook the pylon. It was loose. The two men discovered...
...truth at Harvard shone from a tarnished setting of cultivated hypocrisy, in contrast to the let-it-all-hang-out confessions of the '70s. Yet, appearances, manners, and feelings are also truths; they can support good, bad, noble, or banal intentions. "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent," wrote Willian Blake. The issues then, as now, had to do with intention as much as truth, purpose as much as technique, loyalty as much as self-realization...
...look around Blodgett symbolized the physical changes. My memory clicked back to the big Princeton-Harvard swim meet in the antiquated IAB pool, and how it signalled the competitive end of a facility steeped in history. In stark contrast, Blodgett is almost too modern and impersonal...
...make too much of a fuss over sports in our society. I'm not one to talk, of course, because I think of myself as a sportswriter and read the sports page of any newspaper first. But I begin to question why I do this when I witness the contrast in emphasis placed by society on the arts and athletics--those two areas where man openly displays his emotion, his heart, and his soul...
...Xiaoping and Foreign Minister Huang Hua. Kraft reports he was surprised to find that Vice Premier Deng, only recently regarded as the undisputed leader of China, "seemed restrained, almost wistful-not the self-confident boss secure at the top of the greasy pole he so often climbed before." By contrast, the columnist found Deng's reputed rival, Party Chairman Hua, to be "well informed and composed He didn't give the impression of someone being threatened from below...