Word: akin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imply that a collection of colored smears and slobberings and pieces of a pack-rat nest is art and its creator Robert Rauschenberg is an artist is akin to saying that what Jack the Ripper did was surgery and he was a surgeon...
...KCIA. Yet there seems to me an even more serious issue, namely, that the Korean business interests being promoted by these activities are not bringing prosperity to a nation. They are piling up fortunes for the few while the many work long hours, at all ages, and under conditions akin to those in the days of Dickens, just to keep alive...
Hofheinz shares Schwartz's impression that the country has become accustomed to Mao's "spirit" or "guidance" and he posits that the society will depend on something akin to this "guiding light" to continue functioning as it has been. This doesn't mean all-out struggles must continue, Hofheinz says: "The spiritual factor doesn't have to do-with politics; it's a psychological factor." He believes that worries over China's precarious economic situation will impose a temporary lull on spiritual exhortation. But even in the later ranges of history he says, "swings will probably not be so violent...
...aimlessly and restlessly around a cramped room, her mind resolutely hitched longer distances, cottoning up to the view somewhere around World War I, or even before. My senile grandmother has become an itinerant wayfarer in the last days of her life, and in that way we were spiritually akin to one another this summer...
...outcry. From his Santa Ynez Ranch, the candidate himself called some 100 Republicans. All things considered, Reagan's cajoling held his conservative lines remarkably well. Outside of Mississippi, there were no delegate defections from Reagan throughout the South. Accepting Schweiker, conceded Delegate Bob Beckham of Georgia, is akin to the dilemma of a father "whose favorite son marries a girl you don't particularly like-you just do the best you can with it." More sympathetically, Guy Hunt, chairman of the Alabama delegation, agreed that "the church ain't just for the righteous. Sinners can come...