Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ticket in a slot. Through a merger now awaiting approval by the Interstate Commerce Commission, Johnson hopes to link his railroad-which covers 6,714 miles in 14 states, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico-with the 2,734-mile Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, whose tracks often parallel the Illinois Central...
...WORLD R. Crumb creates in his comic strips is far more important than the message that comes out of that world. It's a fantasy world: parallel walls can meet there and the characters include a female pigeon named Fred, a not-so-wise old man named Mr. Natural, and a rational, hardworking young man named Schuman the Human. The message, on the other hand, is a commonplace: people would all be happy if they'd only relax and enjoy life...
...Berger believes form the best foundation for an "inductive faith" in the supernatural. Without touching on individual experiences of the esoteric - such phenomena as mysticism and private revelation - Berger finds these signals (the "angels" of his title) in experiences that are "generally accessible to all men." In a modern parallel to Thomas Aquinas' classic proofs for God's existence, Berger proposes five common experiences that seem to argue for the transcendent. The arguments...
...their descriptions, it was obvious that the Apollo crew had diligently learned its lessons. The astronauts casually called out names of lunar craters and other landmarks as if they were old friends. The Sea of Fertility. Messier. Pickering. The Pyrenees Mountains. The craters of Colombo and Gutenberg. The long parallel cracks or faults of Gaudibert...
...political future once Washington and Hanoi begin negotiations on withdrawing U.S. and North Vietnamese troops from the war zone. The new line was closely attuned to the views of Henry Kissinger, Nixon's White House Assistant for National Security Affairs, who believes that a two-track parley-involving parallel talks between the U.S. and North Viet Nam and between South Viet Nam and the guerrillas-may prove the quickest route to peace...