Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, the hawks are on the rise. Moshe Dayan remains Defense Minister, and his wing of the Labor party has been strengthened by inclusion in the Cabinet of Technocrat Shimon Peres, who once served as David Ben-Gurion's Deputy Defense Minister...
Move Them Up Fast. He will be a contrast to his predecessor, Rudolph A.. Peterson, who has reached the mandatory retirement age of 65. Peterson is gregarious; Clausen is reserved. In conversation, Clausen uses few gestures and speaks to the point without small talk, though an occasional boyish grin prevents his manner from seeming cold. He plans his day carefully during the half-hour morning train ride from his home in suburban Hillsborough, gets into the office by 8 o'clock. He says he makes decisions by listening carefully to all the facts that subordinates present and then...
British press and politicians had reacted immediately, and emotionally, to the massacre. The editor of the liberal, antiwar New Statesman wrote that "responsibility for the Pinkville massacre -and for how many others?-lies squarely with the American nation as a whole." By contrast, The Economist rationalized that whenever a country goes to war, "it is statistically almost inevitable that some of its men will do something atrocious...
...insights are in growing vogue among U.S. educators, psychologists and some parents. The most enthusiastic compare his work in significance to Freud's pioneering exploration of the emotions. What many people find so appealing about Piaget, as Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles points out, is that in contrast to psychoanalytically oriented researchers, he emphasizes "man the developing thinker rather than man the universal neurotic...
...contrast, Harvard opened its year with an easy 9-0 romp over Amherst last Wednesday. "Cornell is quite a weak team, probably not as good as Amherst." coach Barnaby said. "They have a dearth of experienced players, and we have the home court advantage...