Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunter, danced in last week's performance by handsome Michael Somes, wonderingly clutched his rare bird. Her movements were startled, quivering, with precipitous halts on one toe tip, her torso parallel to the ground, her other leg arrow-straight behind her. Three times she made a vicious break for freedom, three times she had her wild wings pinned by the hunter. At last, exhausted, she sagged in defeat, and as ransom, presented her captor with a gold feather. He set her free...
...first installment covers Truman's first 18 days in office-a period of historic decisions, wrenching personal adjustments, "unbelievable burdens," and flickering self-doubts for the jaunty little man from Independence, Mo. "The presidency of the U.S. carries with it a responsibility so personal as to be without parallel." writes Harry Truman. "To be President of the U.S. is to be lonely, very lonely at times of great decisions." In the hourglass of history, Harry Truman's capacity for his high office and his stature as President may well be measured from those moments of great loneliness...
...since his discharge from the Army has worked through nine jobs. From each he was discharged with regret by employers when they discovered that he had less than an honorable discharge from the Army. This is the kind of penalty for which there is no parallel . . The President's security and loyalty procedures require drastic revision in the civil service. They are not applicable in the Army at all. Draftees are not seeking a privilege, but accepting an obligation, and the Army is entitled to judge them only on their performance in its ranks. Any preliminary investigation of youthful...
...South Korean shopkeepers, for the use of the students and unemployed whom Rhee can always rely on to do his rioting for him. Then President Rhee put out two ultimatums. The first was to the North Koreans: get out of the Kaesong enclave, the area south of the 38th Parallel on Korea's west coast which was ceded to the Communists...
During the ten years of the cold war and atomic arms stockpiling, the knowledge grew, but it grew in compartments, with each group of scientists forced to parallel the work of colleagues in other nations...