Word: akin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appearance, Joe Restic is very much akin to Yovicsin. He is tall and lean, his black hair is close-cropped and carefully placed. One veteran player-who found the Yovicsin style repugnant-shuddered when he first met Restic, viewed his conservative dress and eyed his thin tie settled on a white shirt...
...others have noted that Kathere-vousa is as akin to the Age of Pericles as it is to modern-day Greece. Anti-junta activists charge that its use is intended to spread the official view that the colonels are restoring ancient glory to Greece, and that it severely retards the education of those children who are taught...
...victory for William Kunstler, who represents three White Panthers accused of conspiracy to bomb a CIA office in Ann Arbor, Mich. In ruling the wiretap illegal, Judge Keith wrote: "An idea which seems to permeate much of the Government's argument is that a dissident domestic organization is akin to an unfriendly foreign power and must be dealt with in the same fashion...
...lower mantle, composed of a mixture of olivine and basalt-like rock that was apparently formed out of molten material. Next comes the 150-mile-thick upper mantle, an entirely basaltic layer in which, some lunar scientists suspect, there may have been slow-moving convection currents -movements roughly akin to those that occur in a simmering pot of oatmeal...
...means to hurt the eyes, aiming only for "a stimulating, an active, a vibrating pleasure." But not relaxation -the pleasure is existential, a tuning of the consciousness. In a picture like Cataract III, the eye has no resting place. The viewer scans the inexorably waving lines with something akin to mounting panic, until the heaving surface can no longer be experienced as a flat plane. All that contradicts the eye's movement, and stabilizes it, is a swell of color intensity-turquoise and red coming out of gray and fading back again. The effect of such images is more...