Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Koreans were defiant enough to transgress even this restricted legal loop. The U.N. instantly reacted. But when Mac Arthur was chasing the Korean Reds toward the 38th parallel, an outcry arose that showed how deeply the border-crossing fetish had sunk into the Western mind. MacArthur, it was held, would in become an aggressor if he crossed the parallel in pursuit of the criminal force...
Eight weeks after the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, General Douglas MacArthur asked U.N. members for reinforcements. At that time, U.N. nations had already promised 33,000 fighting men, later upped the number. But last week there were only some 20,000 men from other United Nations on the ground in Korea, compared to 100,000 R.O.K.s, 140,000 Americans...
Instead of withdrawing to Position Charlie-twin perimeters around Seoul and Pusan (TIME, Dec. 25)-Douglas MacArthur made a bolder decision: hold a line across the Korean peninsula, just below the 38th parallel. Since the line was about 150 miles long, it was not continuous but a series of strong points, with R.O.K. divisions apparently stationed on the right flank. In case of a cave-in on the right flank, the line could be pulled back around Seoul to form a semicircle with both flanks anchored on the Yellow...
...stand and wait for it: they patrolled vigorously to keep track of enemy movements and positions, and they improved their own positions with minefields, barbed wire, better combat groupings. Allied aircraft, including B-29s, were out in force, chopping at the enemy and his supply lines from the parallel to the Yalu...
...text, by Critic Robert Melville, is almost as obscure as it is ecstatic, but the book gets down to specifics in a plain-talking letter from Sutherland himself. "It is necessary to work parallel with nature-according to our personal temperaments," Sutherland writes. "We are deceived if we work contrary to our inclinations or to nature . . . If I have felt that I must paraphrase what I see, it is because to do so gives me a shock of surprise-a new valuation of things." That might explain why Sutherland begins with careful drawings of what he sees, and ends with...