Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Legend has it that in his lifetime St. Yves of Brittany, the patron saint of lawyers [May 3], was obsessed with the legal profession's lack of a counterpart for the physicians' Luke and the soldiers' George. He journeyed to Rome and put the matter before the Pope. His Holiness directed Yves to go around the Church of St. John Lateran blindfolded and, after saying certain specific prayers, grasp a saintly figure, which would become the lawyers' patron. Yves, catching hold of an image, cried: "This is our saint!" Removing his blindfold, he was horrified...
...though, none of this could change the minds of those voters who were choosing a candidate on the basis of law and order. And Rizzo was an ideal physical counterpart of the law and order issue. He is enormous, heavy-set and tough-talking. He's the sort of man you'd want as a bodyguard, and apparently that's what Philadelphia's voters wanted last Tuesday...
There was some speculation that the coaches would depart from this method. Harvard's head coach Bill McCurdy discussed the selection of the team with his Yale counterpart Bob Giegengack after the Heptagonals meet in Pailadelphia last Saturday. After some discussion, they decided to stick to the original method...
...Radcliffe Fund, which functions autonomously from its Harvard counterpart, has suffered several financial setbacks in recent years...
...Table Tennis Championships at Nagoya, Japan, the Chinese were back again, reconfirming their prowess as the fastest wrists in the East. In the competition with 308 players from 54 countries, their 22-member team swept four of the seven main events and won the Swaythling Cup, the table tennis counterpart of the Davis Cup. Sometimes using the traditional "handshake" grip of the West (as opposed to the "penholder" grip developed in Japan), the Chinese took up aggressive stances barely a yard from the table and triumphed with relentless, smashing attacks...