Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snows of Hungnam, as the air was rent by protective bombardment and the tragic thunder of demolition in the face of the enemy, U.S. troops prepared to pull out of North Korea. Below the 38th parallel, in the Seoul-Inchon area and at Pusan, other U.N. forces stood fast. On the other side of the world, Western European nations, beset by doubts and fears, gathered to consider their common defense...
Dean Small explained that "reporting for the CRIMSON as well as the Boston newspapers is a permission granted by the College." She defended the policy with this parallel: "White House reporters are responsible to the White House . . . and if they weren't, they wouldn't be reporters for long." Miss Small would be interested to meet Lawrence Todd and Robert Hall, who have covered White House press conferences for many years. As correspondent for Russia's Tass News Agency, Mr. Todd writes for Pravda and Izvestia; Mr. Hall covers for the Daily Worker. Neither of these reporters, we would suggest...
...Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi: a petition to Peking. Signed by 13 nations,* the note "earnestly" appealed to Red China and North Korea "immediately to declare that it is not their intention that any forces under their control should cross to the south of the 38th parallel." Then, the petitioners added, the whole dangerous issue could be talked over...
...delivered to Red China's Wu Hsiu-chuan for forwarding to Peking. Wu, and later Russia's Andrei Vishinsky, cynically asked why the petition was not sent to Washington and other non-Communist capitals which had previously approved the U.N. army's advance across the 38th parallel. Meanwhile, Red forces in Korea crossed the parallel...
...later explained that the line was only a screen of "isolated outposts" which could be abandoned if necessary. South Korean units were already fighting regrouped North Koreans below the 38th parallel. Tokyo said it was a "misnomer" to call such North Koreans guerrillas-they were organized enemy spearheads...