Word: parallelling
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...women team computers in floor exercise balance beam, vaulting and the uneven parallel bars...
...feels its change in attitudes are parallel to a national trend. Executives now speak of a retreat from Great Society optimism. They came to Harvard from schools and towns influenced by the sixties, and since they have been here they have become repulsed by the old paternalistic patching up of community problems...
Until the late 1930s. Lindbergh was a larger than life personality, a man who seemed to have transcended worldly concerns, and who spoke with legitimate moral authority. Precisely for this reason; Lindbergh's decline as a hero is also without parallel in American history. The cause of this change in the national attitude were Lindbergh's views on Nazi Germany, and on whether America should intervene in Europe after the outbreak of the Second World War. He believed the war in Europe was "fratricidal" in that neither side was entirely right or wrong, and he advocated that Western nations stand...
...seeking happiness first in the routines and rewards of the business world and then junking it all to first with transactional analysis and play cocktail piano stints at local bars. He ends up, predictably enough, as a complacent and graying professor of accounting at UCLA, Doris undergoes a nearly parallel development, but her stages are always curiously out of synch with...
...appeal for American intervention in France's colonial war in Indochina. When Ho Chi Minh's troops overran the French fortress of Dien Bien Phu, Ely assumed command in Indochina, and it was he who announced in Saigon the Geneva accord dividing Viet Nam at the 17th parallel. He later played a key role in De Gaulle's effort to disengage from Algeria without provoking civil war in France...