Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time to stop and throw hats in the air, as the populace in Rome was doing. For military men there was a parallel in the fall of Richmond in 1865. Lee had pulled out and swung away from the city when his resistance faltered. Grant followed, drove him to the end at Appomattox. Thus Harold Alexander hoped to finish...
Russia is the only other nation to develop analogues and put them to similar use. When a high U.S. weather officer visited Russia in 1942, he found parallel developments, forthwith began American-Russian meteorological collaboration. Later a Russian mission, including Lieut. Colonel S. T. Pagava, chief long-range forecaster, came to the U.S., traded more technical information. Now the British Meteorologic Office and the Admiralty have sets of U.S. archive charts, and duplicates are on file in every key weather station throughout the Allied world...
Gaullists were happy over the tide of events. But Frenchmen of other sympathy were troubled. In the Algiers Consultative Assembly, Communists and others did not like General de Gaulle's highhanded disposal of General Giraud, worried over his program for liberated France. A striking parallel developed between the extreme Left and the extreme Right among French refugees: both camps warned De Gaulle and the world that Frenchmen in France will determine the fate of France...
Unconditional surrender is an American idea dating from the U.S. Civil War, a conflict in which one side or the other had to give in completely. Europe offers no U.S. parallel. "No European nation or coalition of nations is in a position effectively to accept the unconditional surrender of another nation, that is, to manage and govern it, unless in fact it is prepared to annex...
From an air base in China New York Timesman Brooks Atkinson reported that a U.S. flyer, cutting across the mountains to Chinese Turkestan, had taken his plane up through a soupy overcast to 31,000 ft. Said the unnamed pilot: "I was surprised to find I was flying parallel with a mountain, between 2,000 and 3,000 ft. below its peak...