Word: akin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years they had multiplied tenfold. They had raided and ravaged, living a hard mountain life unsolaced by Athenian cafés. A motley collection of uprooted folk, they had no status quo to preserve, no hopes to lose. Consequently they fought as desperate men. Their mission was akin to that of Communists everywhere: to uproot their countrymen, to spread despair, to kill hope, to smother enterprise, to prevent the sowing of crops, until even the tyranny of Communism would seem by comparison a haven...
...another reason for wanting to leave the U.S. England was at war, and although he is a pacifist (his personal faith is something akin to the Quakers', though he is not much of a churchgoer), he thought he belonged there. But first he went to see Conductor Serge Koussevitzky, who had played some of Britten's music. Koussevitzky gave him $200 a month for five months to write an opera.* Says Koussevitzky: "If he had asked more we would have paid...
...wore long white kid gloves, bangs, and white dresses with pink and blue sashes. The opera was a polite and serious affair. In subsequent years, in going to the opera we have always felt it to be something of a rite, and it was with a feeling akin to guilt, even in later years, that either my sister or myself entered the refreshment room for a discreet cup of coffee...
...Awful Geniality." To Novelist Max Beerbohm, going back to school after a holiday was a perennial nightmare. "Those drives [to the station] have something, surely, akin to drowning. In their course, the whole of a boy's home life passes before his eyes." But worse yet was arriving: "The awful geniality of the House Master! The jugs in the dormitory! Next morning, the bell that woke...
Marshall shook hands all around, chatted a bit, thanked T.V. for his basket of Formosan shaddock and pomelo (akin to grapefruit), urged everyone not to wait in the chill damp outdoors. For a few moments he stood alone by the ramp; he seemed a trifle impatient because the Gimo and Madame were late...