Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mark with light-colored material - circumstantial evidence that suggests the mark must be more recent than the meteor impact that formed Tycho's crater. Dr. O'Keefe noticed, too, that the mark is in line with set of ridges called wrinkles. Since these are all reasonably parallel, they cannot come from random meteor impacts but are probably of internal origin like the parallel ridges of many earthly mountains...
...Keefe has concluded that the arėtes are volcanic, are probably made of stiff lava forced out of parallel cracks in the moon's crust. Some of them may have erupted during the moon's youth. Much more recently - 100 million years ago or less - one of the cracks may have opened agan and oozed laval to form a cluster of low black mounds on a plain that was already thickly peppered with debris from young Tycho...
...first experiment with democracy that led to his downfall. Since the days of the ancient Arab slave traders, the Sudan has been split into two inherently hostile ethnic and religious groups: the sophisticated, dominant Arabs of the Moslem north, 9,000,000 strong; and, south of the 12th parallel, some 4,000,000 backward Negro tribesmen without a political voice. Abboud met frequent black incursions with stern, often savage military reprisals that only fed the flames...
...meter kayak race by 15/100 of a second. In gymnastics, Americans who cheat on pushups could only gape in astonishment as the incredibly graceful Russian girls danced off with the women's-team championship, and Japan's Yukio Endo, 27-poised on the parallel bars as if cast in steel-scored an incredible 115.95 out of a possible 120 points to win the gold medal in the men's all-round competition...
Killed by the Nonexistent. There is an inflexible rule that in a novel about Spain the death of any male character over the age of five must be made to parallel the ritual of the bullfight, and a reader assumes that Celestino's four pains are merely Montherlant's notion of a heart attack. Not so. The police come, flip poor Celestino over, and discover "four thin clean holes which might have been made by a knife or sword." Has Celestino been murdered in some highly symbolic fashion? Apparently not; nor is there any hint that the supernatural...