Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Civilian strategists have long urged a reduction in the 260,000-man U.S. military force in Western Europe. They point out that the threat of Soviet invasion has receded, that a phased with drawal of U.S. troops - particularly if met by a parallel Soviet drawdown -might further unlimber the exchange of goods and ideas between East and West...
...edge of Blackstone Street, running parallel to the line of pushcart fortifications, is a rickety row of retail meat shops, most of which are open six days a week. So, as you start down the Blackstone sidewalk, there are turnips to the left, genoa salami to the right. The meat shops go in for variety. Capicollo. Mortadella. Proscuttino. Pepperoni. Eight different kinds of salami, including carando milanese and d'annuzio. May we suggest some Bunker Hill Baloney? The butcher men whisper loudly like dark corner procurers. "Hey, buddy, you want some nice chops? How 'bout it? I got some nice...
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel...
...Buildup. It seemed especially ominous to critics of the war that the general's tour should have come at a time when the U.S. was notably accelerating its war effort. It also coincided with a massive North Vietnamese buildup just north of the 17th parallel, though little note was taken .of .that particular fact in the U.S. Yet, with four divisions of North Vietnamese regulars poised across the Demilitarized Zone, State Department officials are openly acknowledging for the first time the strong possibility of a massive, conventional invasion in a desperate attempt by Hanoi to deal...
...Allied engineers last week were bulldozing a 220-yd.-wide "death zone" across the Quang Tri plain, some two miles south of the DMZ. The project, brainchild of South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, is reminiscent of the two 20-ft.-high walls built just north of the 17th parallel by the Nguyen dynasty in the 1630s in a vain effort to discourage invaders from the north...