Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dispatches from a neutral source of the German frontier pointed out an apt historical parallel: Kaiser Wilhelm II's celebrated meeting with his Crown Council in August 1918, when the German war lords of that day decided that bitter, drawn-out fighting might yet weary the Allies into granting a soft peace...
...Instead of being laid in the usual way, the bricks are laid one above the other in parallel perpendicular rows...
...remainder of Land I Have Chosen is the story of Anne's disintegration. With a hidden satisfaction she found herself watching the great fortunes crash in the Depression, was ashamed of herself for not feeling sorry. Presently she was no longer ashamed of herself. Running parallel with the story of Anne is the life of Lisa Blessing, a German actress who accepts the U.S. as Anne, in the end, accepts Nazi Germany...
They got their chance; the 82nd was too spent to exploit its breakthrough. So while one regiment of the 9th pushed west from Néhou, through St.-Jacques, another regiment passed the tired 82nd, pushed through St.-Sauveur in a parallel thrust. The enemy's 77th Division put up a bitter rear-guard fight, was savagely cut up and broken; those who could, escaped -but the wrong way, to the north...
Military experts observed that the robot might be regarded as a parallel to the famed Pariser Kanone of World War I, which shelled Paris at extreme range (76 miles) and disconcerted many people without affecting the outcome of the struggle in the slightest. An elderly Englishman in a shelter ticked the robot off more tersely...