Word: akin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is far from simple. In the past twenty years, the life sciences have undergone breathtaking changes, and much of the basic research that has come out of this "New Biology" is directly applicable to medicine. Physicians once considered themselves "healers"--that is, something akin to artists--not scientists; today, they cannot afford to ignore findings in molecular biology or biochemestry, even if the discoveries look like "pure science" with no practical value. (As Berry has phrased it, "Tomorrow comes out of the laboratory, not out of the clinic...
...Moaning and grunting like tortured hogs in some gloomy and obscene den, and thrown into ecstasies by the frantic cavortings, whoopings and gurglings of dim-witted adolescents more akin to 17th century Algonquin Indians than to the founders of this great Republic, devotees of rock 'n' roll music prove conclusively that Homo neanderthalensis is still with us. If politicians in Washington go for it, then assuredly Spengler was right...
Although hunger is rare in the northeast (80% of the region's 10 million population own their own land), malnutrition is common due to primitive diets. In language and customs the northeasterners are more akin to the Lao than to the other 20 million Thais. They are fond of hard liquor, consuming vast quantities of a home-brewed rice whisky called lao khao, which burns with a fine blue flame when ignited. Their staple food is rice and pla raa-raw fish that has been allowed to rot for as long as six months. They also eat tarantulas drenched...
...mistake, the renationalization of steel, cloaked under efficiency or national interest, will bring other industries under the shadow of the Red Flag. To imagine that present socialist policies, even though they still bear the mark of middle-of-the-road politics, will continue under a larger parliamentary majority is akin to living like Alice in Wonderland. There is little doubt that the left wing of the Labor party will eventually rise and demand complete control of industry...
...ordinariness (even morally commendable ordinariness) is closely akin to plain dullness. Frequently The Negro Cowboys slows down to a heavy-footed stagger. Since Negroes were at home in Western society, reminiscences about their exploits get just as mawkish as any Western yarns...