Word: akin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defense attorneys in their final arguments picked up on Neal's vivid description of the cover-up conspiracy as being akin to a symphony orchestra in which each player, no matter how minor, was essential to the complete performance. Prates protested, "We're missing one person here-the orchestra leader." That implied another desperate defense hope: because former President Richard Nixon had been pardoned by Gerald Ford and had then been judged too ill to testify, the jury might find it unfair to convict Nixon...
Radio doctoring is roughly akin to political campaigning. The basic principle is to zap a little new life into the ailing station while undermining the competition with every dirty Tuckish trick in the doctor's book of ruses. Bennett has so successfully mastered this technique that he was once voted the radio industry's "Program Director of the Year" for ingeniously one-upping his own strategies...
...features it possesses." This is recognized by even the youngest children; they are generally the most levelheaded owners and associates of pets, whom they see as fraternal, adventurous and fallible allies, incapable (unlike parents) of scolding or punishing. As Freud noted in Totem and Taboo, children "feel themselves more akin to animals than to their elders." Old people, particularly those living alone, often depend on pets for the companionship and warmth denied them by human society. Some behaviorists argue that the mentally disturbed can be helped by animals -"seeing-heart dogs," in one psychologist's phrase-to relate...
What will be accomplished by leaving these prisoners (young men and women capable of carrying on a useful, normal life) there without any rehabilitation program, without adequate food, without hope of fair treatment? Will it help that much in stopping the drug traffic? I abhor drugs and anything akin to them, but if someone other than the blase embassy could interview these girls and boys, they would find them most happy to use their energies in any kind of anti-drug program...
Adaptation was easy because I felt so good. It was back again to small-time Ivy League football. The Cambridge humidity left me feeling akin to Blanche DuBois--avoiding all light and begging for another drink. But I got used to it. I was reacquainted with that compulsive Harvard desire to succeed, but I didn't conform. I actually had a good time when reading period rolled around and learned to avoid all talk about papers and exams. God, I was ecstatic about feeling so comfortable, so good. At long last: end of Step...