Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost his last election, breezing in from a night on the town to find that his father had died. The fictional son was quite the bon vivant a happy-go lucky playboy without a care in the world. The real life model never quite lived up to his fictional counterpart...
...morning last week U.S. Ambassador to France Arthur K. Watson pulled up in his beflagged Cadillac outside the Chinese embassy at 11 Avenue George-V. He was ushered alone into the richly decorated embassy* to meet his Chinese counterpart, Huang Chen...
There have been many other changes. Perhaps the most important is that she has learned to speak up without the fear (yes, it was a fear) of being called a ballbuster, an aggressive or castrating female (the counterpart tag of male chauvinist pig). She has also learned to assert herself, insist on certain rights-mostly around the house, true, but that's where, after all, she spends most of her time. She asks-does not demand-that her children, her husband pitch in, share some of the trivial drudgery: she swears that gone are the days when, the country...
...sound like feminine chauvinism, but patients who balk at being cared for by a woman might consider what they are missing. To get her degree, to complete her residency, to earn specialty certification, the typical woman doctor of today had to show more determination and skill than her male counterpart...
Even Swift's "excremental vision" has its counterpart in Oldenburg. Any object - from a typewriter eraser to a toothpaste tube, from an ice bag to an electric plug - can be seized and turned into a visible metaphor of the body's shapes and functions...