Word: paralleled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were losing their enthusiasm for open combat, and in the Kabylia alone 250 villages once again "rallied to France." With the military campaign going so well, the French government decided it was time to try the second phase of Premier Guy Mollet's policy for pacifying Algeria-the "parallel" program of political and economic reform. As their pilot project, which they christened Operation Esperance (Operation Hope), authorities expropriated from a French landholding company a 600-acre farm near the Kabylia town of Saint Lucien and announced that 16 Moslem fellahin would be given ownership of the land they...
...saffron and scarlet banner of South Viet Nam continued to fly beside the all-quiet dividing line of the 17th parallel, Nikita Khrushchev begrudgingly admitted the new fact: "In South Viet Nam time has passed," said Khrushchev, "but no elections have been held. Why? Because a so-called democratic state has firmly entrenched itself...
...York police riot squad drove them out. In Parliament he was a passionate advocate of better housing. "My religion never came under discussion even in the heat of controversy." And everybody understood why he took an active part in the underground movement to establish the state of Israel: the parallel was close to every Irishman...
...toughest borders to cross in all Europe is the 125-mile line between free Austria and Communist Hungary. In 1948 Hungarian Communists erected along the entire frontier a literal Iron Curtain of barbed wire in two parallel belts, each about 12 ft. high and 9 ft. deep. Between the belts they planted mines. At regular intervals they set up 30-ft. watchtowers manned by frontier police with machine guns and floodlights. Special guards with watchdogs constantly patrol the Hungarian side of the border...
...East Paterson store to try out his patented Food-O-Mat, a block of tiered ramps that feed cans and jars to customers by gravity and save up to 40% of floor space. To solve the traffic problem inside his stores, Shield broke the conventional supermarket pattern of long, parallel shelves and narrow aisles. For his new layout he had architects design short, boxy shelves, spot them in irregular arcs to create broad aisles and thereby eliminate bottlenecks for grocery carts...