Word: counterparts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Later. Few Americans faced real physical peril. One exception was U.S. Consul General John R. Barrow, who, with his British counterpart, was trapped by howling crowds on the upper floors of the U.S. consulate in the Syrian city of Aleppo. When the mobs set fire to the building, they escaped by sliding down ropes dropped from the back windows. With the help of Syrian security cops, they were able to hire taxis and, with six other Americans and Britons, made it safely to the Turkish border...
...think that Confucianism in Vietnam is as different from its Chinese counterpart as the Vietnamese themselves from the Chinese. In Vietnam, people operate less on Confucian doctrines as such than on Vietnamese principles. It is not the winning side in a struggle that usually carries the Mandate of Heaven, but rather the side which carries out the traditions or behaves according to the principles of the country. Vietnamese history is full or examples illustrating this point. And the present conflict is but only another of such examples...
Upward Bound is the federal antipoverty program's teen-age counterpart of the preschool Head Start program. Now two years old, it has taken 20,000 high school students whose grades failed to match their ability, sent them to 220 college campuses for summertime remedial work in an attempt to prepare more children from low-income families for a college education. One survey of the 1965 summer group shows that 80% did enter college and only 23% failed to finish their first year-roughly the average freshman-class dropout rate. The program, says the Office of Economic Opportunity...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m.). Marlon Brando, the sensitive German lieutenant, and Montgomery Clift, his American counterpart, portray The Young Lions (1958), whose paths fatefully and fatally cross during World...
...work, you can get money") than competitors charged that he was turning his bank into an undignified "hock shop." They jeered that before long he would be fleeced out of business. Tonello insisted that "the Italian man on the street is as good a credit risk as his counterpart in London and New York...