Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology disclosed that his goal had finally been achieved. At an American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco, they announced that using only off-the-shelf chemicals, they had made an artificial gene that does all the work of its natural counterpart...
Flanked by his British, Filipino and Korean colleagues, American Rear Admiral Mark Frudden of the United Nations Command (U.N.C.) took his place at the long table in the Armistice Commission conference room in Panmunjom. He looked up at Major General Han Chu-Kyong, his gray-uniformed North Korean counterpart, and came right to the point: "I have called this meeting for one purpose," he said, "to inform you that our side calls for punishment of those responsible for the murder of the U.N.C. officers...
Penal Collar. Solomon is equally perceptive about China's preoccupation with the printed word. He traces its cultural continuity from the Confucian classics to the thoughts of Chairman Mao. An ancient government bureaucrat advanced by studying the classics. Today his ambitious counterpart must master Marxism as the primary qualification for success in virtually any field...
...month here," Herzog says. His biggest success has been in stabilizing the pitching staff, especially the bullpen. There, Steve Mingori, a 32-year-old reliever who credits acupuncture for the first pain-free season of his career, has the cunning and toughness under pressure of his breed. His righthanded counterpart, Mark Littell, 23, is a flaky rookie known as "Air Head," who has been anything but airy about learning from Mingori. Between them they have 21 saves...
...Shakespeare's invention), the cheerless square peg in a round hole, reflects the Elizabethan era's fascination with neurotic states of mind (as in the plays of Ben Jonson), which would climax a few years later in the publication of Burton's huge Anatomy of Melancholy. Jaques is the counterpart of Malvolio in Twelfth Night, which Philip Kerr played so admirably here two years ago. Kerr is now imbuing Jaques with the same wide-stanced, pigeon-toed gait he used for Malvolio. To this he has added a wonderful pasty face and a hilarious mannerism of gargling...