Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world knew that it had, in a sense too deep, too simple for the world to understand, connived at his death as it had connived at Lincoln's. The parallel between Gandhi's martyrdom and Lincoln's was close and obvious. Each went down in the hollow between the crest of political victory and the crest of moral defeat. And Gandhi's ashes were not cold before the world had begun to vulgarize his saintliness (as it had vulgarized Lincoln's*) by insisting, against the facts, that there was no vulgarity in him. The world...
...Dulles. Appearing before the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Dulles had left no doubt of his belief in the underlying principles of ERP. "Our nation," said he, "cannot long survive as a mere citadel of self-indulging privilege, surrounded by massed human misery." But he proposed as a parallel to continuing U.S. aid "some sort of a customs and monetary union . . . [and] sufficient political unity so that these states will present a solid front to any aggressor...
When newsmen heard of the meeting and took a look at the guest list, they thought they saw the ghosts of the little group of irreconcilables who kept the U.S. out of the League of Nations. There was some excuse for the parallel...
...DeRobertis and F. O. Schmitt of Massachusetts Institute of Technology had seen the insides of nerve fibers. Each fiber looked like a telephone cable, full of parallel threads about one half-millionth of an inch thick. Human nerves and the nerves of frogs, lobsters and squids are all made in this...
...teams of men worked away through the hot summer months molding mountain shoulders with an eye for the first snow. Steel beains and steel towers were erected, wire cord was hung to feed more trials, wider than ever, with a network of town for the benefit of parallel enthusiasts...