Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tailor a single $7,500 order. He is 47 in. at the bulge, but it sometimes swells to 51 in., and he has to keep a triple wardrobe. Each "medium weight'' Gleason suit (designed to cover approximately 250 Ibs., his present weight) has a larger and smaller counterpart...
...muddy section of Yale's Old Campus, the CRIME eleven defeated its Ell counterpart, 22 to 6, before a crowd of 30 NEWS substitutes and three members of the Yale Security Force. Mike ("The Slinger") Belknap led the CRIMSON in completing two touchdown passes and setting up another touchdown by having his weekend date recover a fumble on the NEWS' three-yard line...
...discipline. Only insiders know how rare and expensive Abyssinians are; they are often taken for alley cats by the uninitiated, and thus are considered perfect status symbols for people who hate status symbols. As for Maltese and Angoras, in the peerage of the Cat Fanciers' Association (feline counterpart of the American Kennel Club), they simply do not exist; they are alley cats...
Financing for Project Jarba, the area of southwestern Jordan where the group will work, is being handling by the Jordanian government, the Jordanian Red Crescent (Mohammedan counterpart of the Red Cross), and CARE. The Jordanian government had originally approached CARE to supervise the building of the villages before PBH, on the recommendation of UNRWA, became involved in the project...
...from Austria into Yugoslavia differs little from crossing any other Western European boundary. True, there is a double border, one for passport inspection, one for customs; and the customs official, a ruddy man with an immense fur overcoat and Russian style hat, is even more humorless than his American counterpart. This particular one showed no response whatsoever to one tourist's pathetic attempts to cope with a Serbo-Croatian customs form, though his stoniness did finally soften when another tourist requested extra stamps for her passport. For a moment, he relaxed his suspicious glare, smiled, and stamped her passport three...