Word: likens
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Miami civil rights leaders called for the dismissal of Police Chief Kenneth Harms, 43, a 23-year veteran of the department. Harms' reputation for competence is high, although some city officials liken him to General George Patton because of his tough talk and brusque manner. Indeed, Harms lived up to that image by refusing to make mollifying statements that might ease the friction between police and blacks. "The police did not cause the riot," said Harms, who blamed "200 to 250 hoodlums" for the "robbing, looting and torching...
Nuclear activists say Harvard should divest of these holdings--or at least use shareholder resolutions to vote against nuclear weapons work--as a symbolic show of opposition to the arms race. Some liken the debate to the one over Harvard holdings in companies that work in South Africa--an area where student protests have secured a formal Harvard ban on investing in banks that make direct loans to the repressive Both regime. Harvard officials object that symbolic University gestures like divestiture actually strip Harvard of leverage over its holdings, an argument that can be expected to be transferred...
...portrayed in films, it represents real progress from the prissy sissies played by the likes of Franklin Pangborn and Grady Sutton 40 or 50 years ago, and from the self-tortured gays of The Boys in the Band and the monsters of Cruising, among more recent characterizations. Some observers liken the new gay movies to the Sidney Poitier period pieces about blacks: necessary non-evils designed to disarm the middle-class public by stressing a minority group's similarities to it as a (possible) prelude to more eccentric and individualistic portrayals. For the moment, at least, that...
Please, the Rex cat does not look like a rat. If you must liken this unique animal to another, the Rex should be known as the greyhound or whippet of catdom. With its curly, nonshedding coat the Rex is a cat that people with allergies can often keep...
Three, perhaps four or more; no one could be positive. But the crowd knew instantly what had happened. Witness after witness was to liken the noise to the "popping of a string of firecrackers," -a description made so familiar by assassinations and attempted assassinations that it is now repeated instinctively. A woman who had been standing near the Pope told a reporter confidently: "It was a Browning 9." She had heard the sound of shots many times in her native Northern Ireland, to whose warring factions the Pope in September 1979 had made an impassioned but vain plea...