Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shell burst about 100 yards away on one side of the road, and then another on the other side. That story was put out by Roy Howard (president of Scripps-Howard newspapers), said Truman, and it was a fake. The A.P. story on the cease-fire was a parallel. He understood, he said, that such stories came out because of intense competition between reporters, but it seemed to him that the welfare of the United States, the United Nations and the world was much more important than any competitive situation...
...cubes turned out to be the only source of water they had. The inexperienced crewmen could not row back to the Amphitrite. Neither could they make the shore. Pushed by the current and the 40-m.p.h. gale from the northeast, they drifted helplessly southwestward, parallel to the shoreline...
...first blush, this seemed to come close to meeting U.N. demands, and looked like an even bigger concession than the Communist abandonment of the 38th parallel. If the Reds meant what they said, it would be the first time in any postwar negotiations that an Iron Curtain country has been willing to let outsiders in for a look around. Cautiously pleased but wary of booby traps, Joy's team prepared a list of 21 questions which they wanted the Reds to answer. For example, just what countries would the Communists consider neutral. Nam II promised a prompt answer...
...facto cease-fire." Washington had interposed a plan based on a different estimate of the Reds-measuring their desire for an armistice by the fact that they had agreed to negotiate in the first place, and by the large concession the Reds had made in giving up the 38th parallel as a demarcation line. In effect, Washington was saying to Ridgway and his negotiators that the Reds might make peace if they were given relief from inexorable pressure at the conference table...
...wintry waning moonlight, the skipper of the heavy cruiser Los Angeles, Captain Robert N. McFarlane, brought his ship about and within range parallel to the coast. From the naval post ashore came the map coordinates of the Red troops. In Lieut, Donald A. Marksheffel's main battery plotting room, seamen worked out range and meteorological data, fed it into a boxlike mechanical computer. The No. 3 gun turret swung around toward the target, its 8-in. muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right...