Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natural magnetic field, scientists can determine that dangerous stresses and strains are building up in the earth. Yet they are still unable to predict reliably when or even where earthquakes will strike. Now, as a result of Russian findings in a remote region of Central Asia and a parallel discovery in New York State, seismologists may well have moved a little closer to a long-sought goal: developing an accurate early warning system for major upheavals of the earth...
Individual records also went crashing throughout the meet. Costin reduced her 100 free to 58.1 seconds and her 200 free to an astonishing 2:07.6. Cervilla pulled a parallel sweep in the butterfly events to set the new 50-yd. record at 29.1 seconds...
...preparation for the fight. Foreman won the allegiance of flocks of Jamaicans, who sensed in him something of the same quality that had drawn them to Muhammad Ali. When the fight was over, the Jamaicans carried Foreman out of the ring, a dozen of them holding him parallel to the sky above their shoulders. The arena was in the open air of the starry Jamaican night...
...Chicago Tribune: "The decision to resume massive bombing above the 20th parallel may be accounted as the latest in a series of gambles...But it is obvious that the return to massive bombing entails risks, and that if the policy does not produce a change of heart in the enemy soon we are again faced with the disheartening prospect of a lingering...
Shadow Boxing. One of the troupe's most extraordinary acts is the longpole trick. One acrobat casually balances a 16-ft. bamboo pole between his shoulder and chin. A second climbs aboard, shins up to the top, and once there slowly swings his legs out parallel to the ground. Putting one foot in a velvet loop attached to the pole, he stands, then reaches down to a third acrobat, and the two perform a series of elaborate hand-to-hand exercises...