Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today is Halloween. In contrast to last year, no special celebrations have been planned--or at least announced...
...native Irishmen, hod-carriers and widow-scrubwomen; a savage place where you had to be tough to be honest and cunning to be dishonest. Curley, at the outset of his career, fell in the middle. He was a politician, and therefore cunning, almost from the beginning, but in contrast to the previous ward leaders he demanded that his constituents get something for their vote. Eventually, after numerous intermediate positions of ward leadership, this policy led him to his first term as mayor...
Dunster filled the air with unsuccessful desperation passes in the second half. In contrast, Lowell passed only twice in the game, once for their touchdown...
...They've apparently picked the Princeton game to bring their dates to," W. Henry Johnson, HAA publicity director explained, for the sales were unexpectedly high today. This is in contrast to the demand for Holy Cross ducats which has been unusually light...
...Night that was rock-solid in composition and rock-bare in theme. It made a notable addition to Hopper's hard comments on the loneliness and scantiness of a lot of city life-paintings that bite deeper than propaganda pictures of the "social-consciousness" school ever could. By contrast, Grandma Moses' glowing, not very "primitive" Out for the Christmas Trees and Louis Bouche's slapdash evocation of the New Lebanon Railroad Station, though just as true to American life, were as warm and easy to take as a sunshiny...