Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pursuit was dropped, partly because of the allies, but also because "by the time we had gotten their reactions, our forces were south of the 38th parallel . . . where we had 200 miles in which to deal with the [enemy...
...Administration's wait-and-see policy in Korea), freely predicted that the Chinese Reds would soon be exhausted and would sue for peace. But even with exhaustion, the Reds had another choice. They could stop spilling their own blood, retire beyond the waist of Korea, around the 40th parallel, and sit there...
Last March, the U.N. command in Korea knew that some kind of epidemic was rampant north of the parallel. Medical officers feared it might be bubonic plague, but could not be sure. Brigadier General Crawford Sams, of Atherton, Calif., U.N. Army Chief of Public Health & Welfare, volunteered to find...
...does not govern alone. Beside him rules his glittering wife Evita, a 5 ft. 2, pale-skinned, dark-eyed, dazzling blonde of 32. Their man & wife dictatorship has few precedents. Some have compared it with the dual reign of Spain's Ferdinand & Isabella. Perhaps a closer parallel in history was established by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian, who married Theodora, onetime actress and reputedly the most beautiful woman in Byzantium, and enthroned her as co-ruler at his side...
Next morning eight torpedo-bearing Skyraiders came in to the dam on a wide arc, flying low between the mountains, ready for a quick run and a sharp pullout. The first two planes dropped their torpedoes in close parallel, blowing out completely a central floodgate. Four other Skyraiders dropped torpedoes; one of them tore a ten-foot hole in a second floodgate. Water poured out of the dam; minutes later, the Pukhan began to rise. From the U.S. Army to the U.S. Navy-which had never before used torpedoes on inland targets-went an enthusiastic "Well done...