Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humanity in the drama, it creates an atmosphere most congenial to the brilliantly clear play of some of Aiken's ideas--the loneliness of a human being who feels he has been set off from his fellows by an experience for which many of us will find a counterpart in our own lives...
Conducted, like its Montgomery counterpart, in a scrupulous spirit of nonviolence, the boycott was taken up on other Johannesburg bus lines, spread to Pretoria and to Port Elizabeth. If Bloemfontein joins in as expected, the number of won't-riders will soon be more than...
...wild twists and bends of the open road, the devil-may-care tactics of young (27) Stirling Moss make a flashy counterpart to Fangio's calm control. Fangio belongs to a school that believes any spectacular burst of speed is useless unless the driver finishes a race. To Moss, on the other hand, the trick is to floorboard the throttle and hope the car holds together. The exhilaration of acceleration more than makes up for worry about mechanical failure. For the last few years, that exhilaration has kept the nervy Briton nudging at Fangio's rear bumper...
...eligible for membership in this exclusive club, Americans must be members of the U.S. Congress, or staff employees of the various congressional committees. The money they spend comes from counterpart funds, i.e., local currencies accruing to the U.S. Government in exchange for U.S. dollars spent under foreign-aid programs. And best of all, though the law requires that such expenditures be reported, the reports need not be fully detailed or made public...
...another European capital, the investigators grumbled about their meager counterpart allowance ($100 daily apiece), complained about their hotel rooms (de luxe), threatened to "make it tough" for any official who failed to come across with any of a variety of services they demanded. "If you don't give us the treatment we expect," announced one of them to a high U.S. official, "you're out. We'll take care of you when we get back to Washington." At one point, Investigator Johnson cabled then-SHAPE Commander General Alfred Gruenther, demanded an airplane to fetch them for delivery...