Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talking about "peace negotiations while stepping up the war," then went ahead and did the same thing. Five days before the talks were to start, Communist forces attacked 122 South Vietnamese cities and military installations, concentrating chiefly on Saigon. But the offensive was markedly punchless, especially by contrast with last winter's Tet strikes (see THE WORLD...
...aggregate wealth and individual opportunity, no nation in history can match the U.S. Its cities, for all their problems, gleam like gilded Camelots in contrast to most of mankind's habitations. Its fields generate a superabundance of food, its factories a surfeit of goods and gadgets. The gross national product this year will top $846 billion, and median family income is approaching $8,000 a year?about $2,000 more than that of the country with the next highest standard of living. Sweden. The accouterments of affluence are everywhere: Americans possess more than 60 million automobiles, 70 million television sets...
...contrast, the route of the Southern procession echoed with memories of earlier clashes in the civil rights cause. Passing through Selma, Abernathy paused beside the silver span of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, scene on "Bloody Sunday" (March 7, 1965) of a club-flailing confrontation between King's marchers and Sheriff Clark's lawmen. During a speech recalling King, Abernathy suddenly fell silent and let the tears roll down his cheeks. Then a huge Negro woman began singing: "Jesus-got all the power...
Country Life. His current abode is a four-bedroom, ochre red house 15 miles from Rome, where he lives with Queen Anne-Marie and their two children; he pays about $500 a month for it. In contrast to his Athens stable of flashy cars, he makes do with a blue Mercedes 280 S, which he uses for commuting to town. Up the road a few hundred yards, and overlooking the royal couple's home, are the more sumptuous quarters of Queen Mother Frederika and Princess Irene: a ten-bedroom mansion provided rent-free by Greek Millionaire Felix Mechoulam. Country...
...short time. In 1961, only $186,000 in prize money was at stake; this year the total is up to more than $500,000. Carol Mann's victory at Shreveport earned her $1,725, boosted her 1968 earnings to $9,550, tops on the tour. By contrast, Tom Weiskopf, the No. 1 moneywinner on the men's circuit, has already earned $73,322 this year-almost 75% of what Carol has won in her eight years...