Word: abreast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Return. Riding in a jeep, Badshah Nehru led the Lohars up the steep winding road to one of the fort's seven iron-spiked gateways, wide enough for two elephants to pass abreast. Here he ceremoniously applied the vermilion-tinted rice dust to the forehead of the leading Lohar, while the Indian flag was raised on a 120-ft. marble tower erected to commemorate a Rajput victory in the 15th century. "Brothers, come on. Let us enter our fort," cried Nehru...
Traditionally, the Holy Thursday procession of Buenos Aires' Roman Catholics marches 13 blocks, from Congress Square to the spacious Plaza de Mayo, but this year the police gave grudging permission to proceed only as far as the Church of Our Lady of Monserrat, five blocks from the Plaza. Abreast of the church, the marchers shuffled to a halt. But some of the younger men, alert as scouts advancing into enemy territory, pushed on to see what the cops would do. They did nothing...
When the Administration announced its reserve training proposals early in January, military planning drew abreast of military reality. Prospects for an indefinite period of uneasy peace demand a trained reserve that can mobilize rapidly to support the initial operations of a smaller, professional army. Three-million-man armies on active duty in a cold war are both unwieldy and expensive...
...Nuclear Engineering is a new field and the Division of Applied Science tries to keep abreast of the times," Dean John H. Van Vieck of the Division said yesterday. "There is undoubtedly going to be a tremendous amount of nuclear power generated within the next two decades and we are not sure just how much, but we want to provide training for the many we want to provide training for the many men who will be needed," he continued...
...Crimson's Alan Rapperport nearly upset the visitors' Neil Sween in the 200-yard backstroke. Almost abreast of the touted Green sophomore for the first hundred yards, Rapperport pulled even in the next fifty and was barely ahead in the last leg when Sween, as if shifting into overdrive, touched out first in his best time of the year...