Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parallel Action." The Government sought to prove that the "conspiracy" was achieved by "parallel action" among the defendants, i.e., that their "spreads" (Wall Streetese for markups) went up or down at the same time in the same way. The Government could show such parallel fluctuations only part of the time-and the spreads of securities floated by many non-defendants fluctuated the same...
...being in a "lighter vein," it is in fact a graphic representation of a small child's momentary terror of the unknown. The composer tellingly recreates the image of the poem--a child's imaginary view of the sinister "Brownie," dispelled by the interjection of a companion--by a parallel tension and relaxation of the musical line. When You Are Old And Gray, based on a poem by Yeats, is a beautifully conceived work, simple in structure and poignantly expressed. Monkeys, seemed not totally successful in expressing the loneliness of two creatures in the gloom of a "beast shop...
...Reporter. A San Francisco brothel is described as being at the corner of "Jackson and California" streets, which actually run parallel. Kansas City's Green Hills, where gambling is "open," has been closed for months. Billie Bennett, billed as one of Los Angeles' leading madams, has been dead for six months. The names of many streets and people are misspelled; some are even nonexistent. One reporter, to whom Lait mailed an autographed copy of the book as a reward for a tip, complained that Lait wrote his name wrong. Chicago's Democratic Boss Jack Arvey was amazed...
...cease-fire line at the 38th parallel...
...Flood Control District is drilling a line of twelve-inch "injection wells" 1,000 ft. apart and parallel to the beach. When fresh water is forced into the wells, it will form a dike of saturated gravel that will keep the sea water from entering the pumped-out basin. Gierlich hopes that the basin will eventually be filled to above sea level by the natural seepage of mountain water. Then the sea will no longer try to invade it. The industries and the people who depend on west basin water will never be able...