Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warned that South Vietnamese forces in Laos could be destroyed unless the North Vietnamese are cut off from their bases. To do this, Ky said, South Vietnamese troops would cross the Ben Hai River into North Vietnam. The river is the dividing line at the 17th parallel between North and South Vietnam...
...INVASION of Laos points up two important shifts in the conduct of the war, one military and the other political. Militarily, the war appears to be developing a new objective: Dividing Southeast Asia in half, split near the 17th parallel, giving the United States full control of the entire Southern region, specifically Cambodia, Thailand, and South Vietnam. The United States government, while not yet admitting such a policy, has given indications of just such a scheme...
...were the major proponents of Soviet ideas in the Bauhaus. From Russian stage design followed the Bauhausler Oskar Schlemmer, and from Tatlin's chess table and Rodchenko's functional chairs came Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair and Breuer's armchairs. Of course many of these developments ran parallel, and which derived from which is more a question of interaction than origination, such as Mies van der Rohe's model for a Monument to the Third International...
...Democrats who support the antipoverty efforts of the Office of Economic Opportunity, for example, fear that OEO could be stifled in an administrative shakeup, and may oppose the plan. The conflicting pressures could easily kill this idea. It would also require extensive revision of congressional committees, since many now parallel the executive departments. Convincing powerful committee chairmen to abolish their own jobs will be difficult...
...instead of a scientist, a technician." I was sure that Jean Mayer knew where he stood. He said, "It is an accident, but you'll notice how my life is curiously like my father's." It was no accident, I thought, that Mayer was the first to notice the parallel, but I had to agree with him about...