Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game uses a double deck with four jokers-108 cards. The jokers and all deuces are wild. Red treys are bonus cards, worth 100 extra points. Black treys, by contrast, are purely defensive cards, and can be melded only when the player goes out at the end of a game. In the scoring, a canasta (literally, basket) is a seven-card meld, and if a player makes it the hard way (using no wild cards), the bonus is 500 points. Scoring can run into the thousands in a single hand; 5,000 points is game. In most forms of rummy...
...surprised to learn that my correspondents were friendly in overwhelming majority . . ." he wrote. "The dissenters, being obviously in error, are more to be pitied than scorned. They dodge the issues; they are ignorant victims of propaganda, and their personal comments are intemperate and vulgar by contrast with the fine taste and faultless morality of my devotees...
...fragility of the preceding arguments, in my opinion, makes a sad contrast with the momentous importance of the decision that has to be made...
Although it decisively beat BU, BC, and Brown last week, the Crimson is never-the less an inexperienced squad and boasts but two returning lettermen in its singles lineup. In contrast, Cornell, always, a tennis powerhouse, has only one newcomer in its lineup and among its stars is a pair of juniors nationally recognized in amateur tennis...
...Taft and Hill bills provide for the indigent in the manner of a relief agency. In contrast, the Truman proposal covers more than half of the nation. It absorbs most of the shock for that enormous group who can afford proper care for serious illnesses only at the expense of their normal standard of living. Harry Truman summed it up as well as anybody could: "Medical care is needed as a right and not as a medical dole...