Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight nights.* Children played with the little spinning top called dreidel for candies and coppers, and some were given a new present for each Hanukkah day. In the U.S., Hanukkah has become an increasingly important part of the Jewish year, with Hanukkah cards, presents and parties providing a Jewish counterpart to Christmas festivities. But, in a way, the most remarkable Hanukkah this year took place in Israel, where, along with the traditional gaiety, it brought a truce in a strange, bitter struggle between the orthodox and the unobserving...
Compared to the dissensions of 1854, "our differences today are hot and superficial, like sunburn, not like a fever. The burning issue of 1854 was slavery. Its counterpart of 1954 is the Communist conspiracy. If we had been as united on the first as we are on the second, I dare say there would have been no Civil War. Never in the whole history of the United States, I think, have its people been so overwhelmingly and firmly united on anything as they are in their opposition to Communism." Far from being at war with each other, "we are profoundly...
...create new industries, the U.S. would convert what is now "a giveaway plan [of foreign aid] to what would be a repayment plan." Said he: "Atomic reactors . . . would . . . grow the real wealth out of which their costs could be paid back." If India and Pakistan, for example, put up counterpart funds to match the $170 million of U.S. aid allocated to them in the past three years, "there might be built six . . . atomic-power plants of 600,000 kw. capacity," enough to add a big chunk to India's electric power production...
...True, the uneasy scientist who casts his lot with military-sponsored research is in a dilemma conceived in the unresolved conflict with his military counterpart [TIME, Nov. 1], but must he not hold himself accountable for an equal portion of this deplorable spectacle? Americans have a weakness for making heroes of all who "arrive"-movie stars, football players, etc. It is indeed regrettable that only a few so acclaimed can weather the strain without becoming stage-struck prima donnas. Generals and scientists are not exceptions . . . Many scientists now feature themselves as authorities on international and domestic politics, industrial and governmental...
...problem or a philosophy by such hasty and touchy sampling? Dartmouth's Great Issues course, admittedly still in the experimental stage, must fact this sort of probing. Because it is probably fair to say that the Dartmouth student generally seems to be less critical than his Cambridge counterpart, it is possible that he benefits more from this sort of course...