Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This was the first concrete move of the Communists to set up a government of their own. It meant that the Communists are now not only rejecting the current People's Political Council in Chungking as a representative body of opinion, but are going further and establishing a parallel Communist council. It means that, as of today, the Communists no longer consider the promise of Chiang Kai-shek nor his proponent national assembly as an adequate program for unity; and that they are on their own preparing to establish another national assembly. This would be based on the millions...
...drop from the cool Kweichow plateau into the.heat of the Kwangsi plains. From there you bump by jeep over the great swath of devastation that American construction engineers left behind when they wrecked the country in the retreat of 1944. The bridges are out, and useless railways parallel the highway in twisted shreds of destruction...
...plan was to create a new office of Deputy Commander in Chief for Air, roughly parallel to the job which five-star General Henry H. Arnold holds down in the War Department. Navy airmen would at last have some of the prestige to which they believe they are entitled...
Amazing, But . . . Thrice-widowed Louise, once again the defendant at a murder trial, saw the District Attorney slip the Denton trial transcript into evidence against her. She heard him describe the deadly parallel, noted that the jury -eleven women and one man - appeared to find it amazing but not incredible. This time, Louise decided to testify...
Known officially as Fido (Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation), the system that kept 15 British fields active during last winter's bitterest fighting consists of an installation of horizontal pipes laid parallel to each side of a landing strip. Gasoline is forced through and out of the perforated pipes with tremendous force. When ignited (by men running alongside the pipes with torches), a wall of flame roars from the jets with the noise and smoke of a forest fire. The intense heat first vaporizes the fuel in the upper (feeder) pipe, causing the smoke to subside, then burns...