Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fundamentally, the British distrust the French and do not believe that France and Western Europe could be successfully defended against attack. They foresee only another Dunkirk and want to keep their military commitments on the Continent to a minimum. The British attitude toward the defense of the Continent is parallel to the distrust of "European entanglements" by those U.S. leaders who oppose the Atlantic pact and M.A.P...
...best schoolmasterly manner, he advised the newsmen to bone up on the history of the Alien and Sedition laws of the 1790s. They would be surprised, he said, at the parallel. If they would begin reading about the administration of John Adams and go on through Thomas Jefferson's they would find out all about...
...parallel wasn't quite parallel. The restrictive Alien and Sedition acts, sponsored by Alexander Hamilton's Federalists, were passed by the party in power and signed by the President at a time when the U.S. feared a war with France that never happened. The Federalists feared the subversive influence of French revolutionaries, and also wanted to muzzle the Jeffersonian Republican (i.e., Democratic) press...
...weeks, only 500 U.S. troops will remain to train and advise the new South Korean army which faces the big, well-organized Communist army of North Korea along the 38th Parallel. Without internal stability the South might soon be easy pickings for the North. This week's raid was the sharpest episode yet in the struggle between the Korean administration and its legislature over how to achieve that stability...
Running roughly parallel to Route 20 from Worcester to the Connecticut line and to Route 110 from Salisbury to Worcester, the new road would have frequent cut-outs, none of which would stop traffic. Boston to New York travel would be considerably expedited even though the highway would come little nearer to Boston than Worcester; most autoists who drive to New York regularly agree that the slowest part of the trip is along Routes 15 and 20 from the Worcester Turnpike to the Connecticut line...