Word: liken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Choi is right to liken the current University scene to a bazaar, with precious gems and useless junk laid out together indiscriminately. But what he and other traditionalists must recognize is that though relativism (which he somehow mistakenly confuses with "democracy"), is certainly not a good in itself, it is necessary for questioning the roots of our western culture--a process that is happening and will continue to happen, whether we like it or not. The product of this assimilation may be far superior to both the bazaar and the good, but provincial, culture that came before...
...seemed to have been unaware of the passion of discontent outside Moscow, a city about as representative of Russia as New York is of America. Yeltsin himself is partly to blame for being so out of touch. Suffering from an apparently serious heart ailment, the man many Russians liken to a modern-day czar has for the past two years been a virtual Kremlin recluse. And his inner circle of aides, forever jockeying for position, seem to have concluded long ago that bearing bad news to their boss is the least career-enhancing service they can render. Given his insularity...
...liken the situation to travelling. Let's say that your friends live in New York while you're in Boston. Most people don't think twice if they want to see their buddies or family--they drive, take a train or bus or fly down to see them. Sure there's a risk of an accident, but that shouldn't stop...
...night was moonless, the kind of darkness that pilots liken to flying into a black hole. On the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lieut. John ("Tuba") Gadzinski inched the F-14 Tomcat forward so a deck crewman could hook it to the catapult that would hurl the fighter skyward at 260 km/h. In the Tomcat's backseat, radar-intercept officer Lieut. (j.g.) Kristin ("Rosie") Dryfuse glanced out the cockpit to another deckhand holding a lighted box that flashed "66,000 lbs.," (30 metric tons) the plane's weight. Dryfuse circled her flashlight to signal that the weight was correct...
...Lady Vols. (Connecticut remained undefeated by beating Maine and Virginia Tech last week in the East regional, while Tennessee downed Florida A&M and Florida International in the Mideast.) Says Mel Greenberg, a sportswriter for the Philadelphia Inquirer who is generally considered the authority on women's basketball: "I liken the game to a beautiful flower that is only now coming into bloom. Heck, when I first started covering the girls in 1976, 50 was a big crowd at UConn...