Word: lockstepping
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...most drastic of the many plans for revamping U.S. high schools is that of the Trump Commission, a group of Young Turk schoolmasters financed by the Ford Foundation and headed by J. Lloyd Trump, Associate Secretary of the National Association of Secondary-School Principals. Trump argues that "lockstep" classrooms-30 or so children in one room no matter what the subject-stifle the spirit of inquiry and waste teacher resources...
...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...
...about 17 days in a regular cycle, the colony moves its bivouac every night. Toward dusk one of the raiding columns loses its martial excitement, slows its pace. Then the raiders fall into a steady, plodding lockstep. At the far end of the column, up to 200 yards long, they clot together in a tight, solid mass. The news of the move spreads back to the previous bivouac. As raiders come in from forays in other directions, they turn and follow the plodding column...