Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world crisis continued; but the first shock of U.S. realization had subsided. The U.S., remembering the danger signals before World War II, mulled over the deadly parallel. By last week, some cocktail-party pundits were beginning to mutter: "Why not drop the bomb on Russia...
...military power. Defense Secretary James Forrestal urged one of the biggest defense budgets the U.S. has ever had in peacetime. Despots, he warned, move only when they detect weakness in their neighbors. Hitler had once said: "Our enemies are little worms-I saw them in Munich." There was a parallel in the situation today. "But the odds are not yet on Russia or war," said Forrestal, "the odds are still on the U.S. and peace. . . . For once in world history an aggressor will be forewarned of our determination backed up by our strength...
Pessimist: A nine-year upward movement is quite without parallel in American economic history. It must be near...
Last summer demonstrators prevented Gerald L. K. Smith from speaking in Boston. Political considerations aside, there is an unpleasant parallel between these two demonstrations. At that time this newspaper stated: "The worth of ideas is to be tested in the marketplace of political discussion . . ." There are without doubt worthwhile ideas to be heard on both sides of this issue. It is essential that "the marketplace of political discussion" in which to hear them be kept open...
Garrison, long a key figure in the National Labor Relations Board, drew a parallel between the early stages of union organization here and in Britain and the present policy of the Soviet Union...