Word: complement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That will be a problem, but we're talking about unselfish basketball players," Fitzsimmons said. "Floyd and James are equipped with unparalleled abilities. yet I'm sure that we'll be able to complement each other...
...first and second bananas. With unfettered glee, they short-sheeted beds, banged on walls, and placed a tape recording of reveille set to go off at 4 a.m. under a court deputy's bed (he slept through it). Their boffo running gag: a rubber chicken purchased as a complement to Sheely's chicken jokes. The chicken made regular appearances in beds and toilets around the jurors' hotel rooms at the Ambassador (cleverly dubbed the "Dambassador"). As a token of their esteem, the group at trial's end presented the chicken to Judge Older...
Juster's novel, the most effective wedding of allegory and whimsy since Oz, failed in only one sense; its brusque illustrations by Jules Feiffer were out of keeping with the fanciful story. The animation is a much happier complement to the adventure. Ironically, it is the plot that bogs the film down. More than 20 characters are thrown at the audience in 90 minutes; children will barely be able to recognize them before they disappear forever. Morever, such villains as the Lethargians are a thousand times more delightful than the vapid Rhyme and Reason, a pair gooey and artificial...
Despite the increased likelihood of a bust, the women at the center are planning a full complement of weekend activities. These will include canvassing the Riverside community on Saturday and a "kid's day" on Sunday...
...Asians' unwillingness to complement the Western economy is the main 'communist threat' to America," Noam Chomsky told a teach-in at M. I. T. last night...