Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This decision, however, is overruled by the larger number who would not allow appeasement, even partial appeasement. "Try to maintain a line at the 38th parallel," they say, "pour in as many men as we need to hold on." If we can not do this now they say, pull out and then go back in again, We cannot afford to lose face in the East, this school claims...
...seemed to be centrally directed by General Kim Chaek, the North Korean who commanded the June invasion and later became occupation commander of Seoul. R.O.K. intelligence officers had intercepted radio messages to Kim's headquarters, which they believed to be in the hills 20 miles north of the parallel...
...unification the U.N., in fact, did not see eye to eye with Korea's President Syngman Rhee. And Koreans differed angrily among themselves. Despite a U.N. order that Korea above the 38th parallel did not come under the Rhee government, Seoul still claimed jurisdiction, demanded elections north of the parallel...
...only way U.S. B-29s could bomb the Yalu River bridges without violating the border was by making long bomb runs just inside and parallel to the line running down the center of the 2,500-ft.-wide Yalu. While making such a ten-minute bomb run on Sinuiju, 24 U.S. Superforts at 25,000 ft. were jumped by 16 Russian-made jet fighters-MIG-iss. Attacking in pairs, the Red jets, traveling at better than 600 m.p.h., began their dives high on the Manchurian side of the border, swept across the Yalu just long enough to shoot...
...them were shown to an Alaskan Science Conference at Washington. The ice island is some 35 miles long and 18 miles wide; some parts rise 90 ft. above the frozen ocean. If it is really floating, its ice is about 350 ft. thick. The surface is covered with low parallel ridges 500 ft. wide and looks rather like a gigantic ploughed field. The island may drift a mile or so a day, probably in circles...