Word: akin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refuses to hire a business manager ("I don't want to be bandied around like some blooming new soap powder"), and once turned down a publisher's offer with a curt: "I just don't want to write a book." He regards racing as something akin to painting or music-an art, in which perfection is probably impossible but still worth trying for. Sometimes he worries about whether he likes the sport too much for his own good. "I almost wish I could stop enjoying it," he says, "so I could give...
Aging young engineers obviously need a depletion allowance as their knowledge goes out of date, and last week the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provided something akin to it: a $5,000,000 grant to M.I.T. for a new cram school to retrain seasoned engineers...
Susskind is no shy credit-taker himself. He speaks of the three movies produced with his money--Edge of the City, Raisin in the Sun, and Requiem for a Heavyweight-- as "my pictures." And he regards the art of television as something akin to artistic portraiture. "That Brando interview," he said of an Open End show which will soon run in Boston, "was a really masterful portrait of a human being...
...tone of the movie is closely akin to traditional abbreviation in the Japanese haiku poetry from. However, the story departs from the familiar "Eastern Western" by taking a contemporary subject, the life of a peasant couple and their two young sons on a small hilly island in the Inland Sea. The island serves them as home and farm, but with one awful reservation: there is no fresh water. Each day must be spent in continuous trips to the mainland to get water for drinking and irrigation...
...many admirals, asking the Navy to justify the carrier is akin to asking it to explain why there should be a navy. Outwardly, they profess confidence that they can ease McNamara's doubts. "I'm not defending carriers," says Admiral George Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations. "Carriers defend themselves-for the good of the U.S. They represent the only weapon system simultaneously prepared to wage general war, limited war, sub-limited war, or simply to make a show of force whenever and wherever necessary in support of our national policy...