Word: akin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legal. Without a unity of arms to enforce their will, Denys and his allies began to lose control. With Ku-bitschek's backing, Congress went into special session to discuss a constitutional amendment to remold the government from a U.S. presidential system into a parliamentary pattern akin to West Germany's, with a president of weak powers (Goulart) and a strong Premier to be appointed by Congress...
...novelist. Unlike Faulkner and Fitzgerald, Hemingway rarely dealt with the American scene after his early Nick Adams stories of hunting and fishing in the West. Internationally, Hemingway belonged with Eliot, Yeats and Joyce as one of the prime shapers of modern literature, but temperamentally he was more akin to that roving intellectual foreign legion of Malraux, Camus and Koestler, who sent back communiques from all the battlefronts of the 2Oth century consciousness and conscience...
...organizations is more evident in their absence than their presence. When because of the rigors of examination period the Band almost withdrew from the Memorial Day parade, some city officials felt slighted. Luckily, the Band played. Although no slight is involved, many Cambridge residents also notice when, for reasons akin to exams, the CRIMSON fails to appear every morning...
Provirus & Gene. Yet Dr. Parry does not knock the virus theory. Rather he speculates that the submicroscopic particle apparently involved may act, in effect, as both gene and virus, transmitting the disease by the mechanisms of heredity and later spreading to attack muscles. It would thus be akin to a "provirus" found in some plants and flies. If this is so, it will be the first instance of such a provirus among higher animals. A provirus could be passed from one sheep to another by inoculation...
...humorist actually most closely akin to Jean Kerr, at her best, is Robert Benchley. As writers, they share the same gently shrugging quality that utterly preludes malice, the same preoccupation with the bizarre edges of the commonplace, the same disarming penchant for self-deprecation, as when the ample Mrs. Kerr compares herself to "a large bran muffin" or Benchley calls himself "Sweet Old Bob, or sometimes just the initials...