Word: gradual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last major public statement, the 1978 commencement speech at Harvard University, in which he assailed the West for its materialism, spiritual vapidity and timidity in the face of Communism. Last week the author said that Western secularism has been gaining force since the late Middle Ages and that this "gradual sapping of strength from within" is perhaps a more dangerous threat to faith than violent attack from outside, as under Communist rule...
Though Congress in 1975 legislated a gradual and voluntary changeover in weights and measures, nothing seems harder to do than to get Americans to adopt metric, the system used by all the world except Brunei, Burma, North and South Yemen-and the U.S. In 1977, a Gallup poll found Americans opposed to metric by better than 2 to 1. As part of their continuing struggle to bring the U.S. in line with the rest of humanity, leading proponents of metric, or, more formally, the International System of Units (known by its French initials SI), gathered in Arlington, Va., last week...
...delirious, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly until the fire caught--the Volcano erupted--The Boundaries Dissolved--The Heat Flowed O*U*T!! and she screamed. And she rode the crest of the lava in tumultuous, selfless joy down the side of the mountain until slowly, slowly, she came to an easy gradual rest at the foot of a hill, and there the girlfriend found the boyfriend again...
...policies, then it is equally just to question whether Reagan has developed a vested interest in the theatrics of threat. "Peace is a process-a way of solving problems," Kennedy told us back then. "Let us focus not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions . . . . No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue...
...recent Miami dinner in his honor, Pepper spoke eloquently about growing older. "The aging process is so slow, so gradual, that all you notice is a slight diminishing of some of your faculties," he said solemnly. What the elderly want is "to be thought of as just other people. They need love. They need compassion." He concedes that attitudes toward the aging are improving and predicts that this will get much better when, as demographers predict, the elderly constitute an even larger share of the nation's population...