Word: lockstep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officer with a fever for field duty. He volunteers to command a seven-man demolition team whose main target is the twisting mountain road along which all vehicles, including his own and the pursuing Japanese, must travel. The road is an undulating mass of Chinese refugees moving in grim lockstep with fear, famine and misery. In their eyes, the Americans are the dei ex machina shielded from fatality by the jeep, the SCR-300 radio and the K-ration...
Thus Japan's primitive folk religion of nature gods and divine ancestors is linked in its beginnings with the Japanese throne. The result was Shinto, the Way of the Gods-a lockstep of temporal rule and religion, more efficient perhaps than any since ancient Sparta. After World...
...glamour of being a revolutionary ultimately wore off, and Jones found that his artistic progress was being slowed to a stumble by the party lockstep. Moreover, he found out, rather to his surprise, that the party was not just a place to let off steam but "a political movement." Increasingly enmeshed in the pleasures of bourgeois life, the rising young painter had no time left for party politics. Finally...