Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pratap believes voter turnout will parallel the drop in candidates, saying that he expects it to fall below last year's level of 54 percent...
...fiction-which, like an infuriated swineherd, he can beat, goad, tweak, tail-twist, eye-jab, belly-thwack, spatter with sty-filth and consign to perdition. The new collection closely resembles the herd obtained on the Castigator's last foray, against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from upcreek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city edifice with a revolving electric cross. This time the Castigator singles out the biggest boar in sight and hounds him into a gratifyingly slimy slough. The tale has an obscure hero, another Lewisian lie-hunter...
...President had fought a single-handed fight without parallel in U.S. history. He did it all himself, after Democratic liberal and labor leaders had tried their best to depose him. He had plugged and pounded his way across the country. He had a kind of self-induced fervor which roused the admiring cry of "Pour it on, Harry...
Even before they went out to dinner, it was fairly obvious to first-afternooners that Playwright O'Neill has moved Greece to New England. Those who knew their Euripides were quick to detect a parallel between Mourning Becomes Electra and the classic tragedy, recalled how Agamemnon, returning from the Trojan War, was killed by his wife (Clytemnestra), how the long-lost son Orestes finally killed his mother's lover and his mother at the instigation of Elektra...
...Soviets also tried harassment. Several times during last week's hunt, smaller Soviet vessels dashed at one of the searching U.S. ships, sometimes stopping dead in the water directly in front of it. At other times, Soviet ships would run closely parallel to the U.S. vessels, using the sounds of their engines and propellers to drown out reception from the U.S. underwater listening gear. The U.S. task force commander, Rear Admiral William A. Cockell Jr., told TIME's Tokyo bureau chief Edwin Reingold, "In some cases our ships have had to back off." When they did, their search...