Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believed on the verge of completing the biggest land deal in Brazilian rural history - the acquisition of $1,385,000 worth of land in Mato Grosso state near the Bolivian border. What he already had latched onto, say the investigators, marked him as a wheeler-dealer without parallel...
...Streisand will have to go a long way to parallel Nefertiti. Their profiles don't even look the same...
...Streisand will have to go a long way to parallel Nefertiti. Their profiles don't even look the same...
...Chinese Nationalist troops "sweetened by two U.S. Marine divisions," MacArthur would have landed on both the east and west sides of the Korean peninsula at the North Korean border, thus trapping the Chinese Communist armies that were storming to the south. "Now, the Eighth Army, spread along the 38th Parallel, would have put pressure on the enemy from the south. The joined amphibious forces would press down from the north. The enemy would have been starved out within ten days...
...Italy's greatest industrial dynasties began only 25 miles and nine years apart, and rose with parallel vigor to worldwide fame. In Turin in 1899 Giovanni Agnelli established Fiat, destined to become Italy's leading auto producer. Nine years later, in sleepy Ivrea, Camillo Olivetti founded the typewriter company that became equally famous for its office machines. But fortune has not smiled equally on the two in recent years, and last week one dynasty had to bail out the other. Organizing support from a syndicate of banks and businessmen, Agnelli's grand son rounded up $50 million...