Word: akin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital in Belmont is offering $100 to subjects between the ages of 18 and 35 who participate in a study concerning the effects of stimulants, sedatives and tranquilizers on mood. The only prerequisite for the study is a history of use of these drugs, or substances akin to them...
...academy has seen women march through graduation and has posted a Black as the first captain of cadets (akin to student body president). Plebes now substitute "Hare Krishna, sir" and "No nukes, sir" for the more traditional campus greetings. Male cadets, who once paraded naked through barrack halls, are now required to wear bathrobes when they go back and forth to the shower...
...even from those who do not condone its violent methods: the notorious H-blocks (the term comes from the cell-block configuration) of Ulster's Maze Prison. I.R.A. convicts in the H-blocks have long protested a 1976 ruling that reduced the status of new inmates from something akin to prisoners of war to that of ordinary criminals. The "dirty protesters," as they have been called, refuse to wash, wear blankets instead of inmates' garb and smear prison walls with excrement...
...aisle floors direct customers to Maxwell House coffee at $2.99 per lb., ground beef at $1.29 per Ib. and a 5-Ib. box of Tide at $2.58. All are substantially cheaper than at competing markets. On nights and weekends, when the store is most crowded, the atmosphere is akin to the running of the bulls down the streets of Pamplona. Bobbi Rice, 31, drives four miles to shop at the Safeway Food Barn, although two other supermarkets are nearer to her home. Says she: "We eat a lot of produce, and that is quite a bit less expensive here. Lettuce...
...automatic connection of assassination with something good and hopeful. That would be especially true of places where corrupt administrations are unseated at gunpoint. The assassin states in turn may depend on that connection, trusting that the elimination of ex-employees of defunct governments will be held akin to the expunging of the Tsars...