Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hell and high bombing. As Gestapo Chief, Himmler's authority has expanded over a territory eight times the size of the original Germany he was charged with policing in 1936. As policemen of Nazi Europe, Himmler and his trained Gestapo animals have organized a program of extermination without parallel...
Winning touchdown of his argument is an amazing parallel between Montgomery's victory at El Alamein and a "fullback counter" run from Shaughnessy's T formation (see cut). The tactics are almost identical...
...British last week had a choral experience which the London Times said was without parallel. It was provided in London's Royal Albert Hall by 200 U.S. Negro soldiers. With Private James McDaniel of Kansas City leading them, plucking tones from the bright-buttoned chests like a harpist, they surged through the classic spirituals and the exacting Ballad for Americans. They topped off with McDaniel's own "I see trouble in the air, there must be a God somewhere. All over the world, there is trouble in the air, there must be a God somewhere...
Tough as CAB proposes to be with civilian offenders, it lacks power to deal with the parallel problem of skylarking Army pilots. CAB Chairman Lloyd Welch Pogue has complained to General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold about wild Army flying on the airways, but that is all; the Air Forces alone can discipline Air Forces pilots...
...Detroit. Congressman Paul W. Shafer called the verdict a "farce," a "travesty" and "disgustingly inadequate." The Detroit Free Press called it a "white wash" and "an insult to the fighting forces." The Detroit Times said "it will smell to heaven," and went back 131 years to find a local parallel of military shame when "the coward Hull surrendered De troit to the British without even swinging a punch...