Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Running alongside the great pipeline, for which it was built, the Alaskan Haul Road stretches 397 miles from Livengood (pop. 25), an old mining town north of Fairbanks, to the bleak oilfields of Prudhoe Bay. Following roughly a parallel course northeastward across similarly unspoiled wilderness, Canada's Dempster Highway extends 465 miles from historic Dawson (pop. 745) in the Yukon to the government-built showcase city of Inuvik (pop. 4,150), close to the Beaufort...
...been an attempt against Bazargan's life. Meanwhile, in an effort to consolidate the powers of his provisional government, the Prime Minister reshuffled his Cabinet and called for a reduction in the power of the komitehs, amorphous revolutionary groups that have acted at times as a kind of parallel government...
...companies are only doing what is necessary to keep the oil flowing, their public-image difficulties are compounded by one economic fact that no oilman can explain away: for better or for worse, the Seven Sisters, and many of their smaller competitors as well, have interests that are often parallel to those of the price-gouging OPEC cartel...
Glenn urges instead-as he was going to tell the Groton audience-that the U.S. put "the decision directly up to the Soviets." He wants Washington to press Moscow for advance notice of missile tests and permission for U.S. flights "along an agreed-upon track, parallel to [the Soviet] ICBM test-launch range, and over Soviet territory." According to Glenn, the Soviets "must either accommodate to this new and unforeseen intelligence situation or be branded before the world as the party preventing a SALT agreement for reasons of their own secrecy...
...book introduces seven formally related dialogues, conversations between distant and disembodied voices that lapse into parallel monologues and back again. None really work, although "The New Music," an allegory of lost innocence and hopes of renewal, comes closest. As Samuel Johnson pointed out, stories must be readable before anything else; Barthelme instead gives us ghosts chattering non sequitus. The great thing about the book is that you can flip six or seven pages and not even notice. Consider this passage from the opening of "The Crisis...