Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Horsemen. Democrats had watched the Republicans in action before, and Joe Martin could ponder some of that history. The position he found himself in was not without historical parallel, but it had an unusual aspect. Harry Truman, his party rejected, would have trouble functioning effectively as President. Many of the Executive functions, for all practical purposes, must be taken over by Arthur Vandenberg and Robert Taft in the Senate; Joe Martin in the nation's most representative body, the House...
...teachers conduct the once-a-week sessions. They start out by telling an anecdote, reading a poem, a short story or newspaper clipping, or playing a transcribed radio program. The kids are encouraged, says Colonel Bullis, to "speculate on the motivations lying back of the behavior [discussed] and indicate parallel situations from their own personal experience...
...Again. To some, the parallel between last week and 1919-when the fall of commodity prices heralded the 1920 "snap" depression-was so clear that one U.S. Department of Commerce expert remarked: "If a modern Rip Van Winkle had gone to sleep in 1919 . . . and awakened in 1946, he would feel very much at home...
What was the trouble? Said one worker: "There is urgent work to do: anyone can see there are no houses; the water supply has broken down; land needs reclaiming; we must have sanitation. And we are building a road that is parallel to another." Explained another: ". . . They make us do useless work, then sack us because it is useless...
...cursory comparison of the list of winners and the original slate of nominations shows a marked parallel between position on the ballot and success in the election, a parallel that dramatizes student apathy toward the Council, and at the same time exposes the weakness of the Council in managing all the interlocking ramifications which go into the administration of a democratic election...