Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposite viewpoint will be put forward by Flynn, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and now Democratic party leader in the Bronx. He is expected to defend the need and usefulness of political machines, and will probably parallel the argument in his recent book, "You're the Boss," which was drawn from a life spent in politics...
...larger western section is far neater and better adapted for SAC. Two parallel corridors run the length of the floor and are joined at each end in the center by shorter crossways, thus forming a squarish figure...
...wire-cluttered and slide-rule-dominated anterooms of Lyman Laboratory have recently arisen the slightly incongruous Parisian the slightly incongruous Parisian intonations of Philippe E. Le Corbeiller, who periodically puts aside his parallel resistances and variable condensers to give the nation his ideas on life in the twenty-five and thirtieth centuries...
...concession--...a man with a woman clinging to his arm and giggling covertly, and an old man grinning with an empty mouth, bubbles of saliva at the corner of his lips." But aside from the sheer lustiness of his description, Lewis is tremendously skillful in combining two parallel plots, one in the past and one in the present, without succumbing to the banality that is usually found in the use of flashbacks...
Last fall, hardy Turkish diggers hacked their way into a dense, bandit-ridden forest in southern Anatolia. There they discovered a Hittite royal palace with lines of two-headed stone bulls. Among the bulls the diggers found the long-sought key: 30 stones with parallel inscriptions in Hittite hieroglyphics and early Phoenician, a translatable Semitic language. The first words the ancient language spoke to modern scholars (self-praise by King Asitawandas, servant of Baal) were not particularly interesting, but the hieroglyphic code was broken. Scholars were sure that other inscriptions, now readable, would tell them the story of the Sons...