Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chairman Peter Rodino's committee intends to seek the evidence in two parallel paths. It will first request the material directly from the White House, and will promptly subpoena it if the President's attorneys refuse to comply. Jaworski rightly declares that he is bound by law not to give grand jury evidence to any other body unless a court orders him to do so. Last week he turned over to the committee a helpful list of the 17 tapes and more than 700 documents that his staff has acquired...
Schonberg dotes on his masters, sympathizing with their troubles, seeing them through difficult times, paternally chiding them for their faults. He cannot resist the music critic's temptation to liken them to composers, setting both grandmasters and musicians in parallel hierarchies. Capablanca--"pure, classic, elegant... yet capable of demonic force in his great moments... the complete technician" is the Mozart of chess, and Alekhine, "a nervous tiger who stalked his prey with involuntary physical twitchings and psychic lust" is Wagner. Fischer, Schonberg asserts, surpasses even Wagner in terms of "monomania...
...Labor Party is largely financed by the trade union movement, in parallel with which it grew. It favors economic equality in society but is laboring under the difficulties of having to manage a "mixed economy"--that is, an economy in which some industries are nationalized and some...
...often does in his moments of emotional oratory, Nixon seems to have gone beyond the bounds of fact and good taste. A sample of Lincoln scholars was appalled. "I'm outraged," said Donald. "I don't see a hell of a lot of parallel myself," said Historian Bruce Catton...
...circular upper hall with its white cupola is bathed in electric light, and from the depths of the station, along two parallel escalators, Muscovites rise to meet us in serried ranks. They all seem to look at me as if expecting me to shout at least one word of truth. Why am I silent? ... Because these Muscovites standing on the escalator stairs are not numerous enough; my cry would be heard by 200, perhaps 400 people. But what about my 200,000,000 compatriots? I have a vague premonition that one day I will scream out to all those...