Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Opus Dei members, however, have a reputation for extreme conservatism. At Elmbrook, life is outwardly more restrained than life in a Harvard House. A recent Life article described Elmbrook's Columbia counterpart as "a tasteful commune for conservatives...
Electra-Bar is still not as versatile as its human counterpart. Eccentrics who ask for grasshoppers (creme de cacao, green creme de menthe and heavy cream) or the like still must have drinks made by hand. Also, vegetation for martinis must be inserted by the bartender. But tipplers who have sampled Electra's concoctions report they are remarkably uniform in taste, and generally excellent too. The next step, obviously, is a machine that will listen to the barfly's problems and make an appropriately sympathetic reply...
...undermotivated as they are underproductive, workers loaf on the job, pilfer the factory's stocks or get too drunk to show up. At present, a Soviet worker produces only half as much as his U.S. counterpart and a Russian farmer one-fifth as much. Shoddy work habits are a regular target for the acerbic cartoonists of Krokodil, the Soviet humor magazine. The workers, in turn, joke bitterly about Communism's unfulfilled promise. What is the difference between an American and a Russian fairy story? goes one joke. The American story begins, "Once upon a time there was ..." The Russian...
...slugged 47 homma last season and earns a neat $120,000 a year, drove in two runs on two hits, using an odd, dog-at-a-hydrant batting stance that hasn't been seen in the U.S. since the heyday of Mel Ott. Oh's occidental counterpart, mountainous Boog Powell (35 home runs and a $90,000 salary), went hitless. Although the Giants moved into an early lead, the Orioles pulled out a 6-4 victory with two runs in the eighth inning. The visiting Giants then went on to trounce the Kansas City Royals...
...master of ring psychology, Johnson converted a fight from a contest into a personal exhibition. He would defeat his opponents only after he had made them feel and appear totally unnecessary. In effect, he was reversing the traditional roles in the relationship of the black fighter and his white counterpart...