Word: likening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drug Experience. That slack is often the product of the drug experience. Defenders of the hippie subculture liken it to a super-Eucharistic ritual, one that has brought drug users, particularly of LSD ("the mind detergent") and the other synthetic hallucinogens, into epistemological experience and thus changed their lives forever. Detractors, many of them former hippies themselves, maintain that the religious turn-on is spurious, that true enlightenment can only come through "natural" means, the meditations and mystical experiences common to every religion in history. Still, in its variety and virulence, the hippie pharmacopoeia is the subculture's most...
...Beards. The heaviest barrage of all came from Vice President Hubert Humphrey in New Zealand, who took time out from his Asian tour to liken Kennedy's proposal to "a prescription which includes a dose of arsenic," putting "an arsonist in a fire department," and, for good measure, setting "a fox in a chicken coop...
Residents of New Jersey sometimes liken their state to a keg of beer tapped at both ends, with New York and Philadelphia drawing off the state's talent, energy and brains. The residue is a flat, zingless brew that satisfies no one. Among the dregs is higher education -a field in which rich New Jersey has the poorest showing of effort among all the 50 states...
Such as Miss Bernays' prose. One might liken reading it to riding a bicycle over railroad ties: the slower you go, the harder it is to slog on -- the faster you go, the more your brains are scrambled. Her first sentence is perhaps the most complicated grammatical collection of sundry phrases, clauses, and punctuation since Galliawas divisa into partestres. It deserves quoting as an example of a good way to stun a reader and wreck some moderately refreshing images. Says...
...report acknowledged that the President is the Commander in Chief, but then went on to note that Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution empowers the Congress "to raise and support" military forces. Stated the report: "Might we not liken the function of the President to that of a general who has complete command over his forces but who cannot dictate the precise weapons with which his forces will be armed? The decision as to the kind of rifle, the type of tank, and the configuration of the airplane has already been decided by other authority and the material furnished...