Word: akin
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...speech akin to the light...
Thallium sulfate (the inexpensive salt of a metal akin to lead) was used by some dermatologists as late as 1940 to make a patient's hair fall out-which made it easier to treat ringworm of the scalp. After such treatment hundreds of patients became ill, and scores died. Thallium salts were shunted from the medicine cabinet to the poison shelf. In 1957, the Texas legislature cut the allowable dose of thallium sulfate in a rat-poison mixture from 3% to 1%; the U.S. Department of Agriculture did the same in 1960. But even the weaker mixture is dangerous...
Killing for Equality. Man's lust for power is given freest rein in a crowd. A crowd, for Canetti, is the basic unit of human society, akin to many things in nature: a contagious fire, an all-embracing sea, an immovable forest of trees, boundless sand. Men join crowds to escape the restrictions of life and the sense of isolation from others; the crowd provides a short-lived but deeply felt equality and companionship. "Stepping out of everything which binds, encloses and burdens them is the real reason for the elation which people feel in a crowd," writes Canetti...
There are grounds for accusing Canada's New Democratic Party (much akin to Britain's Labour party) of anti-American sentiment, particularly on economic matters...
...markets in 80 countries at prices ranging from 42? a lb. to $2.24. In India 65 million cups of Brooke Bond tea are downed daily, and in tea-rich Ceylon, housewives increasingly pass up home-grown bulk tea for Brooke Bond "packets." ("This," says Brooke, "is an achievement akin to selling refrigerators to Eskimos.") In Canada its Red Rose brand has pulled abreast of Salada as the national favorite...