Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmhouse of his boyhood for his "last days." He finally accepted an earldom from a grateful government (TIME, Jan. 8). Of him Winston Churchill said: "There is no history like his in living memory. . . . Indeed, history will have to return her pages back to Chatham to find his parallel...
...This problem is the natural result of existing conditions, since most of the papers follow a conservative line politically and economically, due to the large capitalistic interests of the majority of paper owners. Naturally the economic beliefs of such men run parallel to those of other heavy investors and their papers reflect the conservative, moneyed interests of their owners...
...Said Manhattan's excitable PM: "Pernicious and irresponsible ... it might have been calculated to do the greatest amount of damage to the emerging comity of nations." Corliss Lament's top-heavily titled National Council of American-Soviet Friendship unrolled a 20-page dossier, quoting in parallel columns White and those who apparently disagreed with him. These included Churchill, Eisenhower, Roosevelt and Willkie, some of them obviously caught in mid-paragraph while making politic remarks about an ally. Sometimes N.C.A. S.F.'s rebuttal "proof" consisted in comparing White's prejudices with somebody else's. Sometimes N.C.A.S.F...
...combat command of the 11th Armored Division, ripping through a parallel corridor, roared up to the Rhine at Brohl and Andernach. They picked up a German major general, his staff and 3,300 men plus a ferry, intact. West of the Rhine they curved northward, met the First Army's southward drive, snapped the handcuffs on more than 40,000 pocketed Germans. Patton's men had Coblenz surrounded and were flattening other pockets back against the Moselle...
Nazi Newsman Rudolf Sparing reported in an unprecedented, probably exaggerated and almost masochistic vein: "Allied air raids on Dresden . . . caused the greatest destruction a big urban area has ever suffered. . . . Catastrophe without parallel. Not a single . . . building remains intact or even capable of reconstruction. The town area is devoid of human life . . . wiped from the map of Europe...