Word: complement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side have been those-in control until now -who have wanted something like the BBC, a vigorous national alternative to the commercial networks. On the other have been those-mostly in the Nixon Administration-who have wanted to spread federal money to strengthen local public stations as a "complement" rather than an alternative to commercial TV. With last week's installation of Nixon stalwart Henry Loomis as president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the localists appear to have won the battle-at least for the moment...
What is the story then? Based on its most recent performance, the offense seems to have found consistency and the scoring touch. Crone directs the attack with authority, and his play selection has been good. Ted Demars and Mark Wheeler give Harvard a pair of halfbacks who complement each other as well as any in the league. The Crimson will score, but not at a 31-points-per-quarter rate, because Harvard has yet to face a first-rate defense. Columbia has a first rate defense, having shut out its first two opponents...
...company's youthful look and spirit complement what is prankish in the play, though the actors playing the older roles lack a certain plausibility...
...tackle three-year starter Ed Vena will hold down the right, with junior Mike O'Hare at the other starting slot. Vena will supply the Crimson with strong inside pressure, to complement the outside thrusts of Berger and McHugh...
When the 1914 war with Germany broke out, Czarist Russia was unprepared. Yet she instantly sent two armies into East Prussia. Both were ill-equipped, underfed and hampered from headquarters by more than the usual complement of careerist nitwits, blockheaded aristocrats and plain cowards familiar in the literature of military debacle. In the resulting battle, the Russian Second Army, lumbering westward in the vicinity of Tannenberg, was enveloped by the Germans. More than 90,000 prisoners were taken. In a few days, despite great courage shown by many Russian regiments and officers, the Second Army ceased to exist. Its brave...