Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forces of Evil. Stevenson turned to Korea and the paramount issue of "peace and war." Said he: "We all know that when the Communists attacked across the 38th parallel, that was the testing point for freedom throughout the world . . . Sooner or later we would have had to fight, and the later we made our stand the bigger and harder the war would have been...
There is little point in assuming that the Currey faction wants official status now that the Lampoon has taken charge. If there were, Dean Watson's observation, that "there wouldn't be any point in parallel organizations," and the Currey faction's somewhat dishonest machinations would at first seem logical arguments for denying the Southerners recognition...
...revealed University policy toward the like-named Young Democratic Clubs. He said, "If the Young Democrats want to have another organization, and they will not duplicate each other's action, I don't see why they shouldn't." But he added that "there wouldn't be any point in parallel organizations...
...Gennady Mishin, Soviet Air Force Serial No. 25054, is the only definitely identified Russian casualty of the Korean war. On Sept. 4, 1950 (eleven days before MacArthur's amphibious stroke at Inchon), Mishin's twin-engine bomber was shot down in the Yellow Sea, near the 38th parallel, by fighters from the U.S. carrier Valley Forge. A destroyer got Mishin's body from the wreckage before it sank. According to the U.S. report, the Red-starred Russian plane flew "toward the center of the U.N. [naval] formation in a hostile manner," eventually opening fire...
...winter of 1948, he was assigned to Korea. Caldwell and his Korean-speaking wife, a missionary's daughter, were stationed at Chunchon just below the 38th parallel. They set up a library, prepared films, staged puppet shows with messages that got across to illiterate Koreans. Caldwell is sure the 1948 election was "an enormous success," was shocked to find that in the U.S. it was widely criticized as undemocratic...