Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bare minimum; no aides, friends or family members were in the room to share his disgrace. There were no precedents at all in American history-and no exact precedents in world history, the resignation of West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt being perhaps the closest recent parallel-for the sort of speech that Nixon, a head of state departing under a cloud, was about to make...
...Roadeo, by the way, is an event in which truck drivers compete in maneuvering their rigs through a closed course for time. Among other problems, they must parallel park, back into a loading dock and drive forwards and backwards through a serpentine course, around obstacles that allow only inches of clearance. The course is difficult, and even drivers with 20 years' experience sometimes wash...
...tension is apparent as he works the truck back into the parallel parking space, only a couple of feet longer than the truck. The crowd for the first time has something to watch, and starts to focus attention on his misery. He hits a barrier, and another, but finally coaxes his truck between the barricades and goes on to the next problem...
Manne's position is funded by a grant from International Business Machines (IBM) for teaching and research on technology and society. A parallel professorship, also funded by the IBM grant, will be formed in the Engineering Department...
...fantastically ramifying headgear (see color page); the imposing Senufo figure of a hornbill, with its swollen body and spread wings intended both as a carrier of souls and as a fertility symbol; and a magnificent Basonge mask from Zaïre, the face and forehead incised in flowing parallel lines and then covered with white clay, the lips transformed into a jutting prism with a star-shaped hole in it-the very embodiment, one might suppose, of authoritative and ordered eloquence. Combined with the other resources of the Museum of African Art, Elisofon's legacy should be a lasting...