Word: akin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy to design a building for the Yard, since it is an almost sacred area for anyone even remotely connected with Harvard, and disrupting its austere appearance would be akin to heresy. When Lamont Library was built in 1947, the public was assured that it would solve Harvard's library space problems and would not disrupt the Yard. "With a steel frame and a brick exterior, the new library will outwardly preserve the conservative architecture of the Yard, while the interior will be of modernistic design," the Crimson wrote on June...
Barrington Moore even posed the question of whether reforms enlarging student powers had worked at other universities. This is akin to assessing federal poverty programs on the basis of past failures; since previous programs failed, the poor should fend for themselves [Richard Nixon...
...happening when rival teams venture onto the Notre Dame campus. Backed by the loudest, most rabid rooters this side of the Roman Colosseum, the Fighting Irish invariably play over their own heads-while their luckless opponents lose theirs-in an ear-shattering din that is roughly akin to playing inside a bass drum. Two years ago, for example, undefeated U.C.L.A. sailed into South Bend, Ind., and was scuttled in one of the most startling upsets of the season...
...setting the stage for an onslaught against the liberal domestic policies of past Democratic Presidents. His State of the Union message this week, and his budget presentation next week, will pinpoint the programs to be cut. "The President's budget message," predicted one of his aides, "will be akin to the firing at Fort Sumter." At a time when federal funds are running short, such cutbacks neatly fit his essentially conservative social attitude. Nixon watchers are sure that he has moved far away from his first-term notion, inspired by the tutelage of Pat Moynihan, that "Tory men and liberal...
...consist of rust-red organic compounds floating in a thick atmosphere of hydrogen, methane and ammonia coughed up by volcanic eruptions. Exposed to the sun's radiation, the gases could form into complex organic compounds, including sugars, purines and even amino acids. Such a mix of ingredients is akin to the primordial "soup" that is believed to have given rise to the first life on earth...