Word: parallelism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mine. Mines, cheap to lay, hard to find and hazardous to hit, are the real peril of the Korean seas. Communists lay them at night from sampans, frigates, barges and junks. They even drift them downriver. The location and dispersion of mines on the east coast above the 38th parallel indicate that some may be sown by Russian submarines...
...cease-fire prospects brightened once again, two things appeared certain. One was that the U.S. has no intention of settling on the 38th parallel, but will insist on the present battle line, though willing to give & take a little. The other is that if the Reds reject peace, and U.N. forces push forward in a full-scale offensive, there is only one safe place they could stop: the Pyongyang-Wonsan line across the narrow waist of North Korea. At that place, there would be no doubt...
...this, United Cigar-Whelan's management saw a baleful parallel to Green's present maneuverings. But Green mustered enough votes to force his foes to hold a special stockholders' meeting...
...play must be compared to something, "Oklahoma" is somewhat of a parallel. In his book, Mr. Lerner has captured much of the earthiness that made the Lynn Riggs play such a great Broadway success...
Sixty Years in Indiana. After the first census in 1790, the center was the upper Chesapeake Bay. It has moved west ever since, never straying more than 30 miles north or south of the 39th parallel. Between 1850 and 1860 it hopped 80.6 miles from western Virginia to Ohio and by 1890 it had jumped clear into Indiana, where it stayed for six decades. This year, when the mathematicians finished calculations on the 1950 census, it was obvious that the center had made the biggest westward hop since 1890, and, because of the industrial rush to Texas, the greatest southerly...