Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just 22 hours before the anniversary of the day on which the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob Malik faced a microphone on the U.N.'s Price of Peace program. His text clanked along on familiar Communist lines until, at the end of the broadcast, came the words that caused the world to prick up its ears: Russia was proposing a Korea armistice. Did it mean that the Communists had had enough...
...38th parallel...
...extreme western flank, the Eighth Army was still hanging back below the 38th parallel: General Van Fleet seemed unwilling to give up his useful water anchor on the Imjin (which flows into the Han estuary); a forward move in that area would widen his front painfully...
Tired Light. The spectroscopic limit of the Palomar telescope has not yet been reached. Humason believes that in time he can measure the redshift of nebulae 500 million light-years away. But without other parallel advances, even that study will not clear up the mystery of the expanding universe. No one yet is sure why it is expanding, how long it has done so, or how long it will continue...
...plans" for crossing the 38th parallel...