Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maps showing the demarcation line the U.N. wanted. He and Nam II bent over the table, their heads almost touching as they studied the maps. The two sides clashed almost immediately. The Communists wanted to draw the demarcation line along the old North-South Korean boundary, the 38th parallel. If they could swing this, they would be able to trumpet to the world that the war had ended where it began; it would also win for the Reds much valuable real estate, for U.N. units in spots are now as much as 35 miles north of the parallel...
...insisted on stopping the war roughly at the present battle line, which is well fortified and more easily defensible than the parallel...
...Dodgson's escape, in the guise of Lewis Carroll, from the repressions of his era and personality, Producer Bunin plays hob with the facts to picture the children's tale as a virtual allegory of the author's difficulties. To point up a tenuous parallel, he not only rigs the prologue but also changes such characters as the King of Hearts and the White Rabbit, who becomes a comic villain...
Meanwhile, both sides kept a cautious sparring stance. U.N. radar-guided planes flew through blinding rains, hammered at Red airfields, railroad yards, bridges, troop concentrations, supply dumps. U.N. warships ranged north of the parallel, shelled Red supply lines. Patrols slogged through quagmire roads, encountered enemy units on the same mission, felt out their strength and retired...
...Holyoke, Mass., Taximan George Hamel advertised: "Tell us where you are-that's all we want to know. We'll take you where you want to go safely, comfortably," got a fast letter from 22 soldiers in Korea: "We are 1 6 miles north of the 38th parallel on the main supply route, third foxhole on the right, off in a rice paddy with very little water in it. Please pick us up as soon as possible...