Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wells: "The German conqueror today . . . is in an almost precisely parallel position to Napoleon at his culmination. He has spread himself out on an immense frontage exposed to our attack and he cannot tell from hour to hour where he may not be attacked...
Behind the republics was a record of Good Neighborliness that includes parallel export control systems (in some instances more stringent than the U.S. parent system); an enforced blacklist (U.S.-drafted) of Axis-influenced firms; 80 to 100 Axis ships immobilized in Latin American ports for hemisphere use; agreements whereby the U.S. gets first call (literally an airtight monopoly) on vast supplies of strategic materials...
Thyssen became well acquainted with Hitler, but not intimate. Once Hitler, Hess and the malodorous Captain Roehm slept at Thyssen's father's house. In 1932 Thyssen brought Hitler to address the Industry Club of Dusseldorf. The assembled magnates were impressed when Hitler pontificated: "The economic parallel of political democracy is Communism...
Panzers. North from bivouac, with terse combat orders in the pockets of their coveralls, headed the Second. Its tanks moved in column, parallel to the Sabine River. Its wheeled equipment (mechanized infantry, artillery, etc.) took a more westerly route...
Inundated with inquiries, WAAT finally managed to find an excuse: during the magnetic uproar its line from studio to transmitter had picked up conversations from a parallel telephone cable...