Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THORN TREES, by John Mclntosh. Set in a fictional counterpart of Bechuanaland, the novel tells with special horror how white civilization can fail in the face of the white man's degeneracy and corruption...
...fast-skating Crimson six launched a heavy barrage on the Cornell goal in the opening minutes and Cornell retaliated, with Harvard goalie Bill Diercks matching his stupendous counterpart save-for-save. The evening's hostility and whistle-blowing started just as promptly, when referee Giles Threadgold saw Cornell's Doug Ferguson plant his elbow in Pete Mueller's face...
...when the reconstituted steering committee met on Feb. 8, the idea of a union received what was probably its death blow. First, the committee discovered that both the National Labor Relations Board and its Massachusetts counterpart excluded "charitible organizations"--such as universities--from their jurisdiction, and would not supervise an election to designate their group the TF's official bargaining agent. Second, they found that the teaching fellows at the departmental meetings approached the idea of a union very gingerly. As one departmental representative said, "The response was overwhelmingly chicken. Nobody wants to have a confrontation." The teaching fellows...
...matter-though not militarily. The moon, once thought of as invincible "high ground" from which to launch an attack on an earthly enemy, now seems beyond consideration as a rocket base. Any lunar-launched missile would take far longer (16 hours) to reach its target than its earth-based counterpart. It would be harder to guide, easier to detect, and simpler to destroy. Which is one big reason behind Russia's willingness to sign an outer-space treaty, renouncing territorial rights or bases on the moon...
...critic of his times, Hogarth was the visual counterpart to his great verbal contemporaries-Swift, Pope and Defoe. "The proper study of mankind is man," wrote Pope; Hogarth agreed in paint. Satire was his sword-and just how sharp it was can be seen in the current exhibition of 110 paintings, prints and drawings at Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the biggest public showing of Hogarth in U.S. history...