Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China into full-scale war. It was 25 years ago this week that a massive North Korean invasion force, supplied and encouraged by the Soviet Union, swept across the DMZ and threatened to run the South's defenders right off the peninsula. On both sides of the 38th parallel, which divides the country, Koreans preparing to note the anniversary of the conflict do so with more fear and uncertainty than they have felt in many years...
...Shut down city activities that duplicate or closely parallel other agencies. Among the candidates for elimination: the Municipal Broadcasting System, the Mayor's Office for Veteran Action, the Commission on Human Rights, the Office of Collective Bargaining...
...position would be similar to that of Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, in that both report directly to Whitlock. However, the role of the post would parallel, rather than conflict, with Epps's role, the sources said, since Epps deals largely with administrative matters and coordinating student activities...
...this is done convincingly and terrifyingly. But Schlesinger's original error, his failure to structure the film gracefully, resurfaces to ruin the devastating effect these last moments have had. Tod is an eyewitness to these events, and he sees the scene as a parallel to his vision of the "Burning of Los Angeles"--this is the holocaust. In his mind Tod sees the people in the mob linking their arms together, their faces transformed into ugly papiermache masks, while the soundtrack overlays the scene with incantations reminiscent of the theme of the green-skinned guards of the Wicked Witch...
...Frisbee throw best known to run-of-the-backyard players-holding the plastic disk parallel to the ground and flipping it forward with a backhand motion-is of limited use in Ultimate Frisbee. It is too easily blocked. Ultimate stars have developed a special repertory of hard-to-stop releases. Among them...