Word: complement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlikely forum was a two-day annual meeting of the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty at Washington's International Inn. C.C.A.P., which represents 125 social-welfare agencies and other groups, seeks to complement Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity with long-range planning and aid local anti-poverty groups with trained personnel and expertise...
...such star-spangled hits as Life with Father, State of the Union and The Sound of Music; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Grouse was a press agent in 1934 when Playwright Howard Lindsay asked his help on a rewrite of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. "We don't complement, we supplement each other," said Lindsay afterward, and the two went on to conceive twelve plays and musicals locked together in a room, the impeccable, reserved Lindsay pacing, the gentle, unkempt Grouse slumped over the typewriter, each one finishing the other's sentences...
After 33 years of marriage and comfortable success, both the Highets are positive they complement each other perfectly. His background of classicism has given depth and flavor to her work, and her interest in light fiction has given a human edge to his scholarship. Both are gifted amateur pianists; for relaxation they play duets on two baby grands placed back to back in their comfortable Park Avenue apartment. They always write to music from a constantly playing stereo. Says MacInnes, "It never bothers me. I just think, 'Oh, there's Ravel,' like an old friend...
...anyone to find kindred spirits, and to form and develop the friendships that are often one of the most durable parts of Harvard's extracurricular dividends. Each has its distinctive tone and style, and will, I believe, not lose them as each Master chooses his own staff to complement his own personality. So it is clear to me that each of the Houses contains all the physical and administrative equipment needed for it to got fulfill its purposes. If, in addition, its student body is a representative cross-section of Harvard College, it should form a stimulating and congenial environment...
...nighttime emerge as denizens of a seraglio. Thigh-high beach dresses were decorated with traffic signs, arid hiking costumes were just right for a tramp. Cocktail dresses were turned out looking like high-rise first Communion dresses. Patrick de Barentzen used so many bows in the hair to complement his school smocks and jumpers that fashion viewers thought they were watching the children's wear showing...