Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Assembly of the United Nations, a clearing-house for the opinions of member countries can be persuasive or forceful in the adjustment of international problems. The instrument is as effective in its potentialities as its destructive counterpart--the fissionable atom. But for all the prayers offered up to a good of peace, and for all the prophesies of professional well-wishes, the United Nations, as Secretary General Trygve Lie said,". . . is no stronger than the elective will of the nations that support it. Of itself it can do nothing...
...Winants' West Coast counterpart is Graphic Educational Productions, alias Jerome Goldberg of Los Angeles. Graphic's more ambitious series is for children from five to nine - who spend most of their time asking "Why, Daddy?" The records will give the right answer to 25 perennial posers such as "Why are bees so busy?" "Why do I have to go to sleep?" Goldberg's formula: mixing solid fact, harmless fiction and sound effects. Sample (from Graphic's What Makes Rain...
...wars and then went over the hill into Canada one night when his regiment camped near the border. He had an illustrator's eye for detail which rivaled his contemporaries, Currier & Ives. The other big man of his day was Paul Kane, who may have been the real counterpart of "Langdon Towne," the painter-hero in Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage. To paint wilderness Indians as they really were, he accompanied a Hudson's Bay Company "fur brigade" on a three-year trek by snowshoe and canoe, came back with sketches for a lifetime of painting...
...domestic front, which is closer though not less important to Britons, Bevin's counterpart is Herbert Morrison. To him goes the credit and the blame for what Labor did and did not do to raise the lives of Britons above the level most of them had come to consider intolerable. The British electorate, being human, would judge the Labor Party by how much food and clothes and fun Herbert Morrison managed to get for them, rather than by how loudly Ernie Bevin's voice boomed out in international councils...
...same bureaucracy lets the older half of Lisbon (which had survived the 1755 earthquake) wallow. A few blocks from the grandiose and spotless Rocio, Lisbon's counterpart of Times Square, the Old Town's slums have no electricity, running water or sewage. Once a day street cleaners climb up & down Castello de Sao Jorge hill, where generations of shuffling bare feet have polished the cobbles satin-smooth. An hour after the cleaners have passed, the same steep, crooked passages are foul with refuse...