Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whig party before it "men sought to trim and hedge rather than to face the dangers, or talked trivialities, remaining silent on the basic issues, hoping thereby to avoid offending divergent elements. ... A certain cynicism characterized the politics of the day - a cynicism which has had its parallel in our own time...
...Hitler had transferred to Hungary in 1940; to remain sovereign and nonCommunist; to be occupied by U.S. and British troops as well as Russian. This week an unnamed diplomat in Switzerland threw back his cloak just long enough to reveal what he said would be the Allied answer: strikingly parallel terms, except a reminder to Rumanians that northern Bukovina would have to go back with Bessarabia...
...conquest of the U.S. for the cause of his people's rebirth. It ended, in 1918, with President Wilson's acceptance of that cause and Masaryk's Declaration of Czechoslovak Independence in Washington. Supported by 1,500,000 Americans of Czechoslovak descent, and by parallel Czechoslovak action in Russia and France, an aged philosopher had performed one of the major miracles of the epoch: the deliverance of a nation across 3,000 miles of water. The son of a Slovak coachman restored the pride in nationhood King Charles IV had brought to Bohemia 600 years before...
...days to come would tell whether the parallel would hold good for the U.S. Eighth Air Force's "heavy cavalry."* But as the most powerful air offensive in history rolled through its third week, the Luftwaffe was behaving exactly like a fighter who finds the going too rugged, knows instinctively that he must break off or risk exhaustion and knockout...
...historic headlines in the New York Times 's 90th anniversary edition in 1941. Onetime Texas reporter, not a college graduate, Hoffman tried his idea on some 20 educators and historians, found them sympathetic, then found in C. (for Clinton) Hartley Grattan an enthusiastic collaborator. Author Grattan (The Deadly Parallel, Australia's Foreign Policy, etc.) once called the usual written history "academic mythology . . . because it fails to reckon with the buzzing, multifarious reality in which men acted the events...