Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more awesome weapon in use in Viet Nam today than the U.S. Air Force's high-flying B-52 Stratofortress. From the Demilitarized Zone to the Ca Mau Peninsula, the land shows countless scars-spots that look as if a giant rake had swept over them, long parallel lines of deep craters walking across the plains and over the mountains. The scars are the result of tons of explosives rained down in an "Arc Light" mission, a B-52 attack...
...fortune of any dramatist in history. Having long been vitally interested in language, pronunciation, and script, he specified that most of his estate be used to seek out and promote a more efficient British alphabet of at least 40 letters; and that, when such an alphabet was found, a parallel edition of Androcles and the Lion be published with the traditional and the new, phonetic alphabet on opposite pages...
...During parallel ceremonies in Washington, London and Moscow, more than 60 nations last week signed a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. At the same time, Johnson announced that the U.S. and the Soviet Union had agreed to start discussions about limiting and reducing both offensive nuclear weapons and anti-ballistic missiles. Close to Parity. Why were the Russians now ready to talk? For one thing, they may be convinced that the near future may bring a negotiated settlement of the Viet Nam war, which could allow Washington to channel billions of defense dollars into new weapons systems. For another, they...
American Pinpoints. Unlike ordinary "white" light from an incandescent bulb, which is a mixture of all colors, and thus of many different wave lengths traveling in divergent directions, laser light is what scientists call "coherent." It emerges from the rod in rays that are parallel; it is all of the same wave length, and it is all in phase or in step, each ray reinforcing the others, like oarsmen in a superbly trained crew...
...trotter" strides diagonally, pairing his right foreleg and left rear leg, then his left fore and right rear; a "pacer" strides in parallel fashion, both right legs followed by both left...