Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Starting his 30th year as a history instructor, Colonel Bishop,* at 58, is wise enough to know that one well-communicated idea can stimulate more thinking than an hour packed with cotton-wool fact. To that end, he asks his cadets to find parallel situations between current world affairs and what they have learned in history studies...
...tube looks so simple to the experts that-if it really works out-it will have inventors all over the country kicking themselves for not having thought of it first. Just behind the curved face of the tube is a flat glass "viewing plate" on which are printed fine parallel lines of colored phosphors, i.e., materials that glow in red, green or blue when struck by speeding electrons. The lines are arranged in groups, each containing one line of each color, with 450 groups in all. The plate also carries a strong electric charge to attract electrons...
Behind the line-covered viewing screen is a "grid" of fine parallel wires, one wire for each group of phosphor lines. At the narrow rear end of the tube is a single electron gun that shoots a slender beam of electrons through the wire grid at the viewing screen. As in all television tubes, the electron beam scans at a rapid rate, painting an ever-changing picture on the screen of phosphors...
...clock one morning last week, the heavy tread of a Chinese artillery barrage marched across a Korean hillside near the 38th parallel. Sitting in a slit trench, a U.S. private caught the blast of a shell exploding in front of him. A tiny, singing splinter drove through his skull and lodged in his brain. In the foggy depths of consciousness, the private heard his buddy screaming, "Medics, damn it! Medics...
...Stonewall Joy." Also from the Communist radio came the first hints of a compromise. Their position was "not inflexible," the Reds said: "adjustments" were possible and the "first steps" toward peace had been taken. Presumably these adjustments meant that the Chinese would abandon their insistence on a 38th parallel cease-fire line, and agree to some kind of defensible military lines for both sides, as the U.N. has urged all along...