Word: overstep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golden boys sometimes overstep the bounds, and when they do the image of dissent is suddenly revealed for what it is. Last week Khrushchev denounced the elderly Ehrenburg for pleading for co-existence between socialist realism and Western art forms. "Whoever preaches the idea of peaceful coexistence of ideologies slides down to the positions of anticommunism" Krushchev declared, and added that Ehrenburg had committed a "gross ideological error...
...Private Talks. Kuykendall said that he had frequent contacts with power-industry executives, and only "very seldom" did some try to overstep the bounds of propriety. He had also accepted industry-sponsored plane rides for "inspection tours" but thought this was "proper." On one trip to Atlantic City in 1954, Kuykendall recalled that he "saved the Government money" by accepting a ride in a "little plane that had only one engine." However, he agreed that the Government could afford to pay for such inspections and that he would no longer accept free rides...