Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Escorted only by a squad of Lebanese military police, three carloads of visiting Syrian officers last week took a tour along Lebanon's border with Israel. The trip was uneventful until the tiny convoy reached Ramieh, a town eight miles inland from the Mediterranean where paved roads run parallel on both sides of the border. There the Syrians emerged from brush and trees along the Lebanese road to a startling sight. Scarcely a hundred yards away, five Israeli tanks and three halftracks lay in ambush for them on the other road...
Fired to an altitude of 492 nautical miles, the satellite is expected to operate for a year in a near-polar orbit that runs almost parallel to the earth's axis of rotation. Sweeping down from high above the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, it will then head back north every 103 minutes. This orbit has an important advantage: it will bring the spacecraft back over the same spot on earth every 18 days at almost exactly the same time of day. Thus, ERTS's photographs, each covering a 100-by-100-mile square, will be taken at each...
...building is composed of four basic sections. The largest section, which runs parallel to the north wall of the Yard, is the laboratory wing forming the back of the building. The lab wing contains four levels of usable lab space topped by two levels of machinery for ventilation and exhaust of chemical fumes...
...Nixons were put up in an elegantly furnished seven-room suite that had been searched for electronic bugs by U.S. security agents before their arrival. But the President had barely settled in when he got an invitation to chat with Brezhnev-a parallel to the Peking journey, when Mao Tse-tung also invited him to an early, unscheduled interview. Facing each other across a long green felt-covered table, the two leaders conducted what were described by the White House as "frank and businesslike" talks. Those words were regularly, almost ritually used to describe the meetings for the rest...
...pictures have had deliberate racial overtones that are far from flattering to whites; the oppression of the apes has been equated with the denial of civil rights to U.S. blacks. In Conquest, the racial parallel will be explicit. The climactic uprising, says Dehn. "is a little bit like the Watts riot...