Word: parallelling
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Tsoucalas says that the coup was made possible because the Army had become a parallel state. This was especially true during World War II when the British officially tolerated and condoned the para-military activities of right-wing extremist groups (General Grivas' "X" organization, for example) which put down the National Liberation Front (EAM), the Communist-dominated coalition against the Germans. While these right-wing groups, many of them former collaborationists, carried out British policy, Churchill set up a parliament under George Papandreou. Tsoucalas argues that this "double structure of power, democratic in the political facade but Royalist-fascist...
LANG'S FIRST American masterpiece begins peacefully and proceeds in catch its protagonists in parallel mechanisms external situation and internal drive. Its Joe Doe hero (Spencer Tracy) is mistakenly jailed as a kidnapper by a small-town sheriff. The local hicks get wind of his arrest and through hatred, greed, and xenophobia storm the jail to lynch...
...simply puts two rooms onstage, furnishes them identically with a bed, a chair and a wait ing woman, and brings their men to them defying the curfew. "I had given up hope," each woman says, and from there the dialogues of loving, reassuring cliches go on in strict musical parallel, words and acts in either room echoing within moments in the other...
...several months before the Big Three meet, a parallel instance had come up in the NCAA small college cross-country championships. Three Nevada competitors who had placed fairly high in the final results were declared ineligible for having violated certain regulations governing transfer students. But in each case competitors had moved up to fill the vacated positions...
...hoary old capitalist machine will probably run down for lack of personnel. Using the same assumptions, one might conduct a poll of the Harvard faculty to check what "adults" are thinking about Spiro Agnew. Had Gerzon really wished to look up the soaring enrollment in business administration and the parallel decline of liberal arts all over' the country, he would have avoided this inane pronouncement...