Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon the fame of this "emerald of the Atlantic" spread to North America, and attracted many, many visitors whose experiences tended to parallel exactly those of Juan de Bermudez. Clever travel agents knew a good thing when they saw it, but regretted the fact that the Island was only a short, inexpensive distance from New York...
Rock is much slower afoot than most collegiate players, but offsets this lack of speed with an uncanny faking ability. Although he has an effective set shot, most of his scoring occurs when he travels parallel to the backboard, takes a quick fake, and then spins in a layup with either or both hands...
...loyalty, and more particularly on the feeling of Jewishness. The most important symbol of the book is used here with the edge of irony. The Wall which the Germans had built around the Ghetto to keep the Jews in-to separate the Jews from the Gentile-has a parallel in the spiritual wall between the Jew and gentile. The irony lies in the fact that the Jews built the physical wall with their own hands in the German labor battalions, just as they are partly responsible for the other wall...
...Premier's voice droned on. He drew a sharp historical parallel. More than a quarter century ago Red chaos had paved the way for Fascism; now the Communists were again pursuing tactics of conflict and disruption. De Gasperi reviewed recent violent events, dwelling particularly on last month's Communist-led riots in Modena, where police shot down six strikers...
...commented that it was difficult to predict what the results of such a close election would be since there has been no precedent in the history of the British Parliament. He cited the election of 1892, when the Liberals under Gladstone won by a narrow majority, as the closest parallel that he could think...