Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cheaper jets have allayed much of that fear. Many a president now believes that a rakish new jet is just what his company needs for greater mobility and smarter image. Now the executive jet is well on its way to gaining the acceptance already won by its piston-engine counterpart...
...final alternative, PBH can petition the Corporation to appoint a full time social worker from outside the University. Such an appointment would be unique to Harvard, although in 1960 Yale hired a full time social worker to coordinate Yale's counterpart...
...same time massive demonstrations throughout the country would stimulate violence in the South but a "crisis of conscience" in the North. Confronted with bigotry in his backyard, the white moderate would feel shame for himself rather than sympathy for his Southern counterpart. In the cities, liberals hoped that the fusing of economic and civil rights issues would more firmly unite the Negro and the trade-unionist. The President's homespun drawl would hold the South...
...Charleston, S.C., there were ten hotels and motels that welcomed dogs, none that would take a Negro. As for job opportunities, Humphrey cited a Bureau of Census study that showed that a Negro college graduate during his lifetime would earn less than one-half as much as his white counterpart, some $6,000 less than a white man who quit school after the eighth grade...
...some of the specifics of Cheever's childhood let him down-a fact which may have something to do with the fact that today he wears Brooks Brothers shirts with their conspicuously missing pockets and would never consider having a mongrel dog. Unlike its St. Botolphs counterpart, the old family homestead in Quincy was not the biggest house in town, and his family was not the first family, and Quincy, of course, is a fairly routine middle-class "suburb" of Boston...