Word: paralleling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cover of the Dec. 5 issue of TIME, the Nigerian flag is shown in the background with its stripes running perpendicular to the flagpole. [In the flag chart accompanying your cover story in] the same magazine, the Nigerian flag is seen with its stripes running parallel to the flagpole. Which is the correct...
...famous writer packed his traps for the Dark Continent. It seemed a pointless excursion at the time, but he was convinced that Europe was entering on a phase of barbarism, at the very moment the African races believed that they were emerging from it. The perception of that parallel lay at the heart of Waugh's satiric genius. His Bright Young People-the Mayfair savages of his English novels-were tribal kin to his jungle primitives...
Stern Tactics. All Vietnamese recognize that unbending President Ngo Dinh Diem is the father of his country, acknowledge that without him the whole nation would have fallen to the Communist Viet Minh. With more than $1 billion in U.S. aid to help, he has policed the 17th parallel border with Communist North Viet Nam, resettled nearly a million refugees from the north, started ambitious road, railway and land-reform projects...
...does one need to cast very far back for another example: the suppression of the CIA "prestige" report is an exact parallel to the Labor Department's move. Whatever the value of such a report, and however genuine the entire issue of prestige, the people had a right to judge for themselves. And in the same vein of cynical contempt for the public's intelligence was this summer's trick of dating checks for items bought last fiscal year payable in this fiscal year. In effect, this rigged the figures to show an artificially balanced budget to the electorate...
According to Hars, both progressive movements of this century were followed by great World Wars and periods of intense nationalism. He drew a parallel between the 1919 "Red Scare" and McCarthyism...