Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Revenge. Said Judge James Gay Gordon Jr.: "This is a black and shameful page in the history of the Philadelphia police department . . . and ... an ominous counterpart of what occurs daily behind the Iron Curtain. The police had not one scintilla of evidence . . ." Less than an hour later, six Philadelphia policemen, whom Sheeler accused, were suspended from the force, among them an assistant superintendent of police and the head of the homicide squad...
...even in his native surroundings. Meanwhile, the other half of the team, Fred Astaire, interrupts his dancing long enough to go romantic with Sarah Churchill, who is making her much-heralded debut in American movies. Keenan 'Wynn in the double role of an American press agent and his twin counterpart in Britain tries hard to be funny, but only complicates things...
...understand the meaning of evil and good. Evil is present on board H. M. S. Indomitable in the year 1797 in the form of John Claggart, the Master-at-Arms. Claggart represents not merely human weakness and cruelty--he is simpler than that. Claggart is pure, malicious evil. His counterpart in good is Billy Budd, an ingenuous young sailor who is as kind and friendly as he is handsome. Claggart is an abandoned cynic who cannot see good in man, while Billy cannot recognize evil...
Last week Ike got his industrial counterpart. To William Rogers ("Rod") Herod, a large, amiably impatient man of 52, president of International General Electric Co., Inc., went the post of Coordinator of Industrial Production of the twelve NATO nations. Herod would have to decide what defense item each NATO member could best produce, then get it produced so that the West's armies would have the largest possible flow of tanks, mess kits, T-shirts, drawn from twelve nations. It was a unique job. Generals had commanded international armies before; never before had there been a Herod investigating foreign...
...course will be held as a seminar by the Classics department for graduates, while the History department will supervise the undergraduate counterpart. The departments decided to include these courses in their programs when Granville Downey, associate professor of Byzantine Literature, now at the University's Dunbarton Oaks Byzantine Research Center disclosed that he was free to teach here...