Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendès plunged ahead with a new confidence. Before, he had let it be known that he would consider partition of Viet Nam at the 16th parallel (the Communists demanded the 14th). But on his return, he proposed division at the 18th (see map, p. 22), which is 140 miles to the north of his first boundary. "The American signature is surely worth a parallel or two," he told Viet Minh Foreign Minister Pham Van Dong cheerfully...
...magazine as large as yours, contributions toward original, creative terminology are plainly lacking. For example: to parallel the term "McCarthyism," you could coin or use a new word to represent the strongest opposite camp, such as "Malocrats" -which could thereafter represent to your readers a group of Democrats for Malenkov or bad Democrats...
...conference must "examine without further delay the political questions," said Molotov blandly. These should include, "first of all," the "granting of sovereignty" to all three Indo-Chinese states, the holding of "free elections" in each, and the withdrawal of all "foreign" troops. Political discussion, he said, should be parallel with the military, and should be conducted by "direct contact between the representatives of both sides"-an arrangement that would force recognition of the bogus and largely nonexistent "liberation" movements of both Laos and Cambodia...
...draw in the areas where McCarthy and Oppenheimer operate. But the lines must be drawn. President Eisenhower's defense of executive-branch rights is necessary because McCarthy's operation, if unchecked, would paralyze the Administration. Gordon Gray's carefully reasoned strictures against Oppenheimer have a parallel basis...
...Final Secret. She is much reminded of her husband by a ruddy-faced, curly-haired visitor. As he kneels at her side, she instinctively knows that he once made love to her on the chaise longue. A more terrible parallel occurs when she starts spitting blood into her handkerchief and realizes that as Milly, she will...