Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slowly begun to wean the Vietnamese defense forces away from the "Let's spend the night in the fort" concept of guerrilla fighting that they learned from the French. But the whole establishment is threatened by 350,000 well-armed Viet Minh Communists from north of the 17th parallel. Cambodia, citadel of Southeast Asian neutralism, and Laos are the weakest spots in the defense chain...
...Germany, where the world championship tournament will be held next March, some 1,500 league games were played last week alone. Current West German champions are a bunch of youngsters who play for the Turnverein Frischauf of Göppingen and who spend their leisure hours working out on parallel bars to develop the agility that will send them hurtling at goalies for a Fallwurf (falling shot). Explains one player: "All the hard falls on the court are worth the look on the goalie's face as you come flying at him. It's real...
...cover of the Dec. 5 issue of TIME, the Nigerian flag is shown in the background with its stripes running perpendicular to the flagpole. [In the flag chart accompanying your cover story in] the same magazine, the Nigerian flag is seen with its stripes running parallel to the flagpole. Which is the correct...
...famous writer packed his traps for the Dark Continent. It seemed a pointless excursion at the time, but he was convinced that Europe was entering on a phase of barbarism, at the very moment the African races believed that they were emerging from it. The perception of that parallel lay at the heart of Waugh's satiric genius. His Bright Young People-the Mayfair savages of his English novels-were tribal kin to his jungle primitives...
Stern Tactics. All Vietnamese recognize that unbending President Ngo Dinh Diem is the father of his country, acknowledge that without him the whole nation would have fallen to the Communist Viet Minh. With more than $1 billion in U.S. aid to help, he has policed the 17th parallel border with Communist North Viet Nam, resettled nearly a million refugees from the north, started ambitious road, railway and land-reform projects...