Word: akin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mast by crane and perched on a 16-in.-wide platform. To capture the magnitude of the Lexington, he was taken in a small boat across the bow of the mighty ship so that he could shoot up at the great gray mass, a view akin to the cover painting by Artist Nicholas Gaetano...
...change, by good examples and token adjustments, a society that claims it will go down fighting rather than willingly institute change? In light of these considerations, I feel that the assumption underlying the Sullivan principles--that change can come through "the power of persuasion" and "good examples"--is akin to the argument that one could convince the Ku Klux Klan to support integration and civil rights if you just reasoned with them. Greg Stone...
...other words, as Sen. James McClure (R-Idaho) put it: the Clinch River appropriation is "in effect, self-authorizing;" it needed to be killed with a specific bill, not just left out of a budget as Carter had done. The senators had seen the President's plan as akin to Nixon's impoundment of funds and that view had prevailed...
...real undoing of the linksters, however, was the Yale greens, which were akin to thread-bare Gobelin tapestries. While dining at D'Andrea's restaurant after the debacle, Fitzgibbons rapped his fist down in the midst of practicing wedge shots with his spoon on a hot fudge sundae and said: "It was like hitting onto this table--absolute concrete." After leaving D'Andrea's, Paxton put a penny in the scale in the lobby and got his fortune. The scale told the tale: "Change quickly if you are headed up the wrong alley (or fairway...
After he sank his birdie putt on 18 on Sunday, Player, whose demeanor is akin to that of the dour Scotch pros of old, erupted into a victory jig. He also punched the air in triumph. This is a common gesture nowadays, but before the 21-year-old Gary Player joined the U.S. tour in 1957, it had never been seen in America...