Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point Scott talked of the 1954 advance of the North Koreans across the 17th Parallel against the South Koreans. An aide leaned over and murmured something...
...interest in anthropological description ran parallel with this taste for the sublime. In 1824 George Catlin saw some Indians in Philadelphia and determined that "nothing short of the loss of my life [a possibility] shall prevent me from visiting their country and be coming their historian." With immense energy he set out to chronicle every tribe, producing up to six oils a day. They vary greatly in quality, as one might expect. But at his best - as in Head Chief of the Iowas-Catlin's agile drawing combined with his near worship of Indian ways in images that...
...world's financial powers should not talk only about money reform but should also hold "parallel conversations" about lowering barriers to world trade...
Hanoians are not awed by the giant eight-engine B-52s with their 30 tons of bombs. People who spent several years in the vicinity of Vinh Linh, near the 17th parallel, where B-52s were operating practically every day, explain to us: "Of course, if you're just underneath, you haven't much of a chance. But when you get used to them, you know how not to be underneath. Just look at Quang Tri. With their thousands of tons of bombs, they didn't stop our troops." And they add matter-of-factly...
...request is the first step in a class action suit, O'Toole v. Tarr, which contends that the parallel induction rule was violated by the Selective Service System (SSS) when C.O.s were ordered to report for work while no men classified 1-A or 1-AO were being inducted...