Word: complement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sour Mash Boys and the Waylors complement each other--the famous part of the bill practiced and calm and in an easy category by itself, the local group sharp with nervous potential and playing straight conventional country. It's amazing that a truly quintessential country and the western band like John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys could have risen up in a town where people's idea of a real cowboy bard is James Taylor. But Cambridge isn't entirely unfriendly terrain for a pure and healthy country music to grow in, for these musicians are students...
Casting hoop squads is not casting dice, and perhaps grouping platoons of guards and forwards that complement each other and attack the enemy's sore spots would shift the emphasis from individual starting slots to final scoreboard tallies...
...military forces of the Soviet Union. Given that economy as well as strength is desired, the United States should seek the best officers possible for our armed forces. The best officers combine leadership and discipline with humanitarian instincts. Harvard has an obligation to educate men and women to complement the officers of the military academies. We need Marshalls as well as Pattons...
...absorbed by the ramifications of his cutting-keen artistic conscience. In choosing him in the year of The Eye of the Storm, his ninth novel, the panel also showed a sentiment in favor of the "old-fashioned" novel-that is, a carefully crafted fictional edifice with a full complement of realistic detail and psychological probing. His newest book certainly has alj, that, but it is a pallid creation that often makes the reader wish -respectfully but vehemently-that the storm would blow every bit of it away...
Dolphins speak and humans scheme in this coy satirical thriller. The dolphins come off a lot better, but of course they have the best roles. In fact, they have the only roles. There is the traditional complement of actors-George C. Scott most prominent among them-but none has enough raw material to build a part. So a loquacious dolphin and his female companion swim off with the show, and welcome...