Word: akin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overweight children studied in one community, 80% became overweight adults-and adult obesity goes with increased liability to heart-and-artery disease. In fact, says Garn, the American child's diet, sometimes characterized as "one big milk shake," is perilously akin to a diet used by medical researchers to create death-dealing obesity in rats. He concludes: "Frappes, fat-meat hamburgers, bacon-and-mayonnaise sandwiches, followed by ice cream, may be good for the farmer, good for the undertaker, and bad for the populace...
Krenek's pathos in instantly communicative, the pain is very near the surface. Threni seems more akin to the Lamentationes of Tallis, written almost 400 years ago; both rely on low timbres and an introspective polyphony that seems to express the recollection of pain rather than its direct experience...
...Since the terms 'ape' and 'monkey' are defined by popular usage, man's ancestors were apes or mon keys (or successively both) . . . Man is in the fullest sense a part of nature and not apart from it. He is not figuratively but literally akin to every living thing, be it an amoeba, a tapeworm, a flea, a seaweed, an oak tree or a monkey." In a word, man lives in a world "in which he is not the darling of the gods." In other species, Simpson points out, uncontrolled evolution often leads to degeneration...