Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, for U.S. commanders and correspondents to surmise that the Communists were running out of horsepower. U.S. intelligence reported two new North Korean tank brigades, ready for action but not yet committed, and equipped with 84 brand-new Russian T-34s. U.S. carrier-plane pilots, raiding behind the 38th parallel, reported damaging 35 tanks at Pyongyang-which seemed to indicate that enemy tank replacements were not drying up. Said General Walker: "I don't believe we're in great danger, but we may get a bloody nose. The enemy can still slug with both fists...
Many radiomen think the Chicago experiment is doomed. They see a parallel between what is happening in TV and what happened in radio in the '30s, when Chicago pioneered in low-budget dramas, documentaries like The Empire Builders, and situation comedies like Amos 'n' Andy, Fibber McGee & Molly, and Vic and Sade. By 1937, almost 400 network shows a month were originating in Chicago for NBC alone. Then New York money and Hollywood climate and opportunities began to siphon off Chicago's talented radiomen, and most of the remaining shows degenerated into a mishmash of successful...
...loves, and his last fling at love itself with an 18-year-old Italian countess in Venice. Hero Richard Cantwell is 51, a U.S. Army colonel demoted from general and stationed in a postwar billet in Trieste. His personal history and even some of his characteristics are startlingly parallel to those of Author Hemingway...
Guarding themselves and keeping fit is a negative necessity; retaliating against an enemy is SAC's real job. That is why, nearly every night, the big B-36s nose through the long twilight of the 55th parallel, learning more & more about Russia's kind of weather, and how to get through it, in case of war, with their death-spreading weapons...
...question of Korea's future before the U.N. Assembly when it meets at Flushing in mid-September. Last week the word at Flushing was that the Assembly, not hamstrung by the veto, would probably recommend that the U.N. army in Korea 1) push beyond the 38th parallel, and 2) establish a unified regime for all Korea, under U.N. supervision...