Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans could find a certain parallel in their own Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Some of its thorniest obstacles and most brilliant compromises arose out of the difference between the little states and the big ones. But the extreme range of size and power at the Philadelphia convention was from Massachusetts down to Delaware. Between them was an easy gradation in the importance of the other eleven states...
...battle raged with parallel violence in the sea and sky around Okinawa. Since March 18 Japan had lost more than 3,168 planes in almost continuous attacks, many of them by Kamikaze suicide pilots, upon the fleets supplying and protecting the Tenth Army. That was a high rate of loss: best estimates placed Japanese plane production, before the 6-295 began hammering the aircraft factories, at from 1,200 to 1,500 a month...
Granted a clear development of U.S. foreign policy, then both our position in the world organization and our armed might may be used harmoniously toward common or parallel ends...
When a big artery is severed, the parallel, subsidiary blood pipelines only rarely function well enough to prevent gangrene; in the war in Tunisia, gangrene developed in 70% of severed artery cases. The standard technique of sewing severed blood vessels together, devised by the late Dr. Alexis Carrel, is successful only 40% of the time-under the best conditions. It was therefore a major medical event when Dr. Arthur H. Blakemore of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Dr. Jere W. Lord of Cornell University medical school found a new way of welding broken arteries that succeeds...
...Brittany peninsula, plunged through the Loire valley with only air protection on its flanks. In the Battle of the Bulge it raced to the rescue of Bastogne, went on to help carve up the German advance. In the Saar-Palatinate cleanup it sliced through in parallel combat columns, scored one of the big victories of the west...