Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Allies now lay parallel valleys. Entrenched on the mountains commanding these valleys were the Germans, still in excellent positions to delay the Allied advance. Through the westernmost valley, before General Clark's Fifth Army, wound the Via Appia, most famous of all roads to Rome. Before the Eighth can think of Rome, it must hack up the Adriatic coast to Pescara...
...Slovakia would have the No. i position. Industrial Austria and Czecho-Slovakia might neatly complement agrarian Hungary, perhaps offer a haven for Rumania and for Croatia & Slovenia if prewar Yugoslavia should not revive. The rest of Southeastern Europe-Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Albania-might be encouraged to form a parallel Balkan Federation...
...Hold arms parallel to the ground and shake your wrists vigorously...
...Schumann then felt he had the formula for Table Mountain. He proposes to erect on the mountaintop two parallel fences of fine wire netting, a foot apart, with an electric potential of 50,000 to 100,000 volts between them. He thinks that these wire screens, about 150 ft. high and 9,000 ft. long, will precipitate from the cloud at least 31,000,000 gallons daily. Since the cloud is constantly renewed, winter & summer, he believes it would give Capetown a year-round water supply...
After the war, with the political changes which disrupted his Liberal Party, Lloyd George receded to a position without exact parallel in U.S. political life. Still a great figure, he was nevertheless without tangible power or political organization. His only political role was that of M.P. for Caernarvon, Wales, the district he had represented since 1890. Now 80, Lloyd George can still speak with authority, though he speaks for himself and not for a powerful party or bloc...