Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land & sea as well as by air, the allies were doing everything possible to hamper Communist communications to the fighting front. Near Songjin, almost 200 miles north of the 38th parallel on the east coast, 250 British marines went ashore from a naval task force led by the U.S. heavy cruiser St. Paul. While the ships shielded them with a curtain of fire, the commandos mined 100 yards of the Communists' main east coast rail line, blew a trough 16 ft. deep in the roadbed. After seven hours ashore, the British got back on their ship without a casualty...
R.O.K. units had been across the parallel, on the east coast, since March 27. Last week a U.S. column crossed north of Uijongbu. Soon the front north of the parallel had broadened to ten miles, then to 40 miles, and by week's end troops of seven nations-U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, Siam, Greece, South Korea-were in North Korea almost everywhere along the 110-mile front. Enemy resistance faded in the west but stiffened in the center, in front of the Communists' "iron triangle" (Hwachon-Chorwon-Yonchon), where the main body of their forces was believed...
...National unity is not compromised ... by the existence of two parallel educational systems, which can only favor the unity of all in respect to the liberty of each one . . . The church does not attack the public schools . . . [We] ask only that the state discharge its obligations impartially . . . The moral unity of the nation can only be realized if there is mutual respect of the rights of conscience...
...exception is Karl Menninger of the famed Menninger psychiatric clinic in Topeka, Kans. (TiME, Oct. 25, 1948). Busy Dr. Menninger practices Presbyterianism as well as Freud, sees no irreconcilable conflict between the two; in the current issue of the Chicago Theological Seminary Register he explains how these practices parallel...
...eastern flank of the peninsula, U.N. naval forces bore the brunt of probing the enemy, sapping his buildup, keeping him as much off balance as possible. The port of Wonsan, 80 miles above the parallel and a key traffic hub, was under continuous fire; by week's end it had endured 43 consecutive days of bombardment, a naval record exceeding that achieved in the siege of Vicksburg.* Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith, in command of the naval task force off Wonsan, described the operation: "In Wonsan, you cannot walk on the streets. You cannot sleep any time...