Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shaded terraces of the White Rhino Hotel, Kenya's white citizens look over their teacups at Nyeri golf course, one of the world's finest. Last week, as they watched, a squad of black policemen trundled on to the fairway an odd-looking contraption of ropes and parallel bars. It was the Crown Colony's portable gallows, an 18th century-style instrument used to dispatch Mau Mau terrorists near the scene of their crimes...
Rogge stated that it is preferable to stay on the 38th parallel in Korea for 50 years rather than to precipitate...
TIME'S [Jan. 26] "Solution in Korea" is the first sensible suggestion on this issue to appear in the press since the Communists moved across the 38th parallel. As one of those W.W. II retreads who spent months along the present battle line in Korea, however, I can only lament that this strategy has been too long delayed...
...thing because it is much more interested in manifestations than motives, more preoccupied with the how of Salem than the why. It is what the story stresses, more than the story itself, that reveals its bifocal nature, its linking of "witch-hunting" past & present, its absorption with parallels-despite the axiom that parallel lines never meet. Moral indignation rather than insight has combed over the facts; and in the end The Crucible not only omits something from its picture of Salem, but takes the life out of its inhabitants. The psychological tragedy of fierce Calvinist repression that erupted...
...nine battalions; fresh from his 45 training schools came officers and NCOs. A month later, the Bootleg Division was on a 150-mile march to the front, under Brigadier General Yoon Chun Keun, 41, graduate of the Manchurian army academy, who was a regimental commander sitting on the 38th parallel the day the North Koreans opened...