Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acceptance" of the U.N. mission, was piqued by the inclusion of a Pakistani instead of an Indian adviser in Hammarskjold's entourage. Next day Hammarskjold had an interview with Nehru, who told him that by passing its "unfortunate resolution" the U.N. "had again crossed the 38th parallel." Unless Hammarskjold showed "humility" and was prepared to widen his discussions to embrace "a wider settlement," counseled Nehru, he was probably wasting his time...
...cannot. It shakes our roots with its confusing pattern of success and failure . . . Quick decisions are needed. As a result, sport leads to the most remarkable self-discovery of our limitations as well as our abilities. It was sport that . . . made it easier for me to think about the parallel stress that faces us in real life...
...study called for the creation of a small statistics department to reduce duplication in parallel mathematical work in the social sciences...
...summing up his own career, Hays liked to draw a parallel from the life...
During this time there was also a change in Mickey's disposition. From the cocky little youngster who pulled cats' tails and whanged away with six-shooters, he slowly mellowed, like Walt himself, into a more substantial, middleaged, suburban-type mouse-a parallel which, taken together with a certain facial resemblance between Walt and The Mouse when both were young, has convinced Walt's brother that, in fact, "Mickey is Walt...