Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kwame Nkrumah is to Africa today what Lenin was to the Soviet Union in 1917," Ghana's Defense Minister said recently. The parallel is most apt, for Nkrumah is rapidly turning his country into an absolute dictatorship. Items last week...
...perpetuated itself in a delicate honeycomb by Edward D. Stone. Tier upon tier of arches suggests a squared-off Tower of Pisa; behind the concrete colonnades is an all-glass building. At each floor level, a continuous flower bed with piped-in water provides hanging gardens to heighten the parallel between Beverly Hills and Babylon...
...sophomore, however, suddenly aware of the closeness of marriage, is forced to decide whether she wants to "commit herself" to going seriously with one boy. The pressures to do so are great. For one thing, going steady can be an easy way to appear mature, because of its parallel with marriage. For another, girls complain that they date much less frequently in their second year than they did in their first. "Except for two girls, no one in my dorm goes out regularly," remarked one Moors sophomore. "It gets pretty depressing having to write papers on Saturday nights." Thus...
While working on the legal problems of the Moscow treaty, Chayes was in constant contact with John McNaughton, who has the parallel post of General Counsel to the Department of Defense. McNaughton has been in the job since July 1962. Before that, he was deputy assistant secretary for arms control under Paul Nitze, dealing with Berlin crisis matters. Now, as the chief legal advisor to the Pentagon, McNaughton spends about half his time on "the charter responsibilities of the job"--the purely legal questions of defense matters--and the other half on special assignments...
...would have thought such an exaggerated story would have a real-life parallel...