Word: akin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Investigators strongly suspect that the tic is neurotic in origin, related to the venting of aggression. Beginning in children as muscular twitches, the La Tourette syndrome gradually progresses to grunts and finally foul shouting. Doctors have tried everything from psychotherapy to sedatives and carbon dioxide inhalation, which is akin to a form of shock therapy. Lasting cures have proved as rare as the disease, but Psychologist David F. Clark now reports in the British Journal of Psychiatry that the treatment is contained in the symptoms...
...flights, the TFX is still the subject of bitter dispute. Last week the Pentagon confirmed that the plane will cost two to three times more than originally expected. To get anywhere near the requirements of each service, the Pentagon has had to turn its dual-service project into something akin to two distinct planes-and the Air Force and Navy are grumbling loudly that each version has been compromised for the sake of a hybrid that fully meets the needs of neither service. Troubled by these facts, Senator John McClellan's investigations subcommittee, which conducted much-ballyhooed hearings...
...least the province of medical faculties and more and more it is being subjected to critical and often painful re-evaluation. The other half of medical education which takes place during internship, residency and fellowship is not the legal responsibility of the medical school or University and is more akin to the old apprenticeship system of education than the University. To be sure, University faculties are involved in University-affiliated hospitals, but the "curriculum" is the creature of the specialty boards, accreditation bodies and the pafrticular speciality groups within the hospitals. It is a system of education which has grown...
Warmer Toward Utah. Smith also suggested that the Reorganized Saints should, without compromising their beliefs, take more of an interest in the Christian ecumenical movement. As it happens, the Reorganized Saints feel more akin to other church groups-such as the Methodists-than they do to the Utah Mormons, even though relations between the two denominations are warmer than they used to be. Members of the Reorganized Saints' district in Utah are no longer shunned as apostates by Mormons, while spokesmen for the two churches now politely refer to their differences as problems of doctrinal interpretation rather than...
...drum of World War I, and contains some of the finest and most moving war poetry ever written, notably by Britain's Wilfred Owen, who was killed in action in November 1918, and Siegfried Sassoon, who survived. The verbal montage of irony, pathos, and ribald gallantry is much akin to last season's searing musical, Oh What a Lovely...