Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Millions discover the winter counterpart to jogging...
...Eastern Mountain Sports Inc. in Boston. "He's onstage, he spends money on clothes, he's into a relatively short period of high energy. The cross-country skier is just the opposite. He's relaxed, he sets his own pace. Skiing cross-country is the winter counterpart to jogging." Increasingly, though, cars heading into the mountains carry both downhill and touring skis...
...were felt by Brown and his 20-member party in Riyadh, where the Secretary was greeted by skirling bagpipers of the Royal Guard. Although their subsequent conversation was amiable, Crown Prince Fahd inexplicably kept Brown cooling his heels for two hours before a scheduled meeting. Talks with his Saudi counterpart, Minister of Defense and Aviation Prince Sultan, were also cordial. The American visitors were surprised, however, that the prince did not ask for specifics when Brown proposed a heightened U.S. military presence in the region. The Secretary had carefully set the groundwork for a discussion of that subject by outlining...
...neighborhood was now the perfect counterpart of his inner state: Its filth and ugliness corresponded to his lust...
...film so badly, except maybe 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which I didn't try hard enough to get, and lost out to Jack Nicholson," he said. He added that the movie, which will be released in 1979, is a "romantic comedy, sort of a masculine counterpart of An Unmarried Woman,'" in which a middle-aged, conservative college teacher tries to recover from his divorce...