Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Mississippi Democrat John Stennis smoothly guided Defense Department appropriations through the Senate with only desultory debates. Expecting similar treatment in this session, the Pentagon sent up one installment of its customarily laconic request for funds...
...death of Mary Jo Kopechne on Chappaquiddick Island last month does not belong in the same category as these and similar scandal-tinged tragedies. Edward Kennedy has denied all charges of indiscretion with the young woman, and there is neither proof nor convincing speculation to the contrary. Yet his inconsistent and clearly incomplete explanations have allowed doubts to persist that involve much more than Kennedy's political future. The fortunes of the Democratic Party in the 1972 presidential election have been affected; so, perhaps, have been some of the liberal causes that Ted Kennedy espoused...
...maintained a private fund that had been collected from wealthy businessmen. He was criticized for it, but he had nothing to worry about: he was elected by a state legislature dominated by these same businessmen. In 1952, when it was disclosed by the press that Richard Nixon had a similar fund, he was saved only by a dramatic television appeal: the famous "Checkers speech...
...Edward Goldfader, because the runaways seldom alter the familiar pattern of their lives when they take up residence in a new city. They do not change their names, often because they fear their inability to respond naturally if someone calls out to them; they usually end up with jobs similar to the ones they left. Often they can be found merely by checking the records of the firms that clear new applications for company group insurance and pension plans...
...department-store job, help support the two children remaining in his care? Indeed she should, ruled a judge, who ordered her to pay Moore $80 a month for the children. Though such decrees are rare, a number of states now recognize the principle that a woman must pay, in similar circumstances, when the child's welfare requires...