Word: akin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monty Python regular. Deceased felines in Bond's black humor pose as toast racks, pencil sharpeners and potholders. Although the book has sold 765,000 copies in the U.S., the mood is too indigo for some ailurophiles. Says A.S.P.C.A.'S John Kullberg: "Coming upon the book is akin to being a member of the Moral Majority and seeing 101 Uses for a Dead Fetus. Bond, who has been a loving cat owner, although he is allergic to the animal, retorts, "Good comedy will always upset somebody. If I'd written 101 Uses for a Dead Aardvark...
...scientific community stands opposed. As one subcommittee staffer said, it views the measure as akin to treating a mosquito bite with acid...
...characterized American attitudes toward Canada-U.S. relations as something akin to, "You're cute when you're mad, honey," adding that it represented "unconscious imperialism...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People before retiring in 1977, died at 80. Then Vernon Jordan, 46, president of the National Urban League for the past ten years, announced at a New York news conference that he was resigning to join the Dallas-based law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld...
...reigning cuneiform expert at the University of Chicago, Ignace J. Gelb, who classifies the Eblaite tongue as most akin to the Mesopotamian languages of Old Akkadian and Amorite, and thus distant from Hebrew, believes that the discoveries at Ebla add "nothing directly to biblical scholarship." But Pettinato, who first deciphered Eblaite, considers it an early Canaanite language closest to the northwestern Semitic languages of Hebrew and Ugaritic (the latter was discovered in 1929 at an earlier dig in Ugarit, Syria). One specialist in Ugaritic and Hebrew, American Jesuit Mitchell Dahood of Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, goes further...