Word: dissimilarity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were vastly dissimilar men-a polished Cabinet minister, a tough bodyguard, a wealthy newspaper publisher, a confirmed criminal and a veteran Socialist politician. One chilly day last week all five met the same fate: they mounted a scaffold at Seoul's Sodaemun prison and were hanged by the neck until dead...
...epidemic of phylloxera devastated every French vineyard. But the simple transplanting of vines from one country to another does not result in identical wine unless climate and soil are also identical. Thus, despite all this cross-breeding in their ancestry, the wines of the U.S. and France remain notably dissimilar...
...healthy. The New York Evening Post called the Crime "a fine and high-grade expression of the best student sentiment," while Mother Advocate, thinking back to the days when the paper was an upstart literary magazine, observed, "If child is father to the man, the two are often strangely dissimilar...
...this chronicle of family life in Knoxville, Tenn. in 1915, the very theme in the end is family life: husband, wife, small son in-laws, generations, dissimilar family backgrounds, differences over religion conflicts due to temperament, conjugal love, ultimate human separateness. What shifts various stresses, what tightens and loosens knots, is the impact on so many lives of young Jay Follet's sudden death in an automobile accident. The immediate, wrenching impact, above all on Jay's pregnant wife, gives the play its most powerful scene, an emotional climax from which the rest of the play moves downward...
...ordeal goes on. The outcome depends entirely on the strength and experience of two partners as dissimilar as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...