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Word: parallelling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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They said that change towards a free education was inseparable from political realities. They said: "We consider the primary precondition for the solution of the people's problems the immediate end to the tyrannical regime of the junta, and the parallel establishment of popular sovereignty...

Author: By Efthimios O. Vidalis, | Title: 'The Tanks Have Turned Their Guns on Your Children' | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...will not say when Teddy will be fitted with an artificial leg. But the youngster is not waiting that long to learn how to get around. With the toughness characteristic of his clan, he reported to the hospital's therapy unit last week, and with the aid of parallel bars and a temporary peg leg, began learning to walk again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Teddy's Ordeal | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...posters and painted signs refer to him as "Arik Sharon, King of the Jews." An avowed rightist, Sharon stands with Begin on issues of security and has even on occassion referred to himself as "Commander of Israeli Forces in Africa." His case can be likened to the obvious American parallel, that of General MacArthur, who was fired by Truman for insubordination and returned home to a hero's welcome. MacArthur, however, then faded into obscurity. Sharon may well be fired and return to Israel a hero. But rather than fade into obscurity, he will in all likelihood make himself...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Israeli Politics After the War | 12/1/1973 | See Source »

...forbear. Yet the intervening century has given Jim the additional consciousness that the deep-seated American reverence for mechanical power in itself is one of the causes which have led to a society in which machines are so complicated that they baffle most people. Jim's work evokes the parallel between an ordinary twentieth-century man's astonishment in the face of mysteries like lasars. He is gently satirizing an America foolish enough to long for the good old days of the last century--the very times in which the seeds of its own most pressing problems were sown...

Author: By Mary Scott, | Title: Imaginary Engines | 11/21/1973 | See Source »

...American culture, and their economic strength makes them models for emulation by the native elite. Educated at Harvard of Princeton of Cal Tech or, in the days before the United States became the preeminent imperialist power, at Cambridge or Oxford, the native upper classes contribute to a cultural westernization parallel to, and in large measure caused by, the westernization of the economy...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: The Cultural Attack, And the Response From Latin America | 11/16/1973 | See Source »

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