Word: step-by-step
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...Charles de Gaulle has seldom worked by any book except his own. He is a man addicted not to step-by-step plans or programs but to grand conceptions grandly achieved. For better or worse, France had voted to entrust Algeria to Charles de Gaulle...
...film buffs as perhaps the finest achievement of Japan's most vigorously gifted moviemaker: Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa. The judgment is difficult to dispute. Despite heroic defects-and partly because of them-Ikiru ("To Live") is a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism: the step-by-step, lash-by-Iash, nail-by-nail examination of the Calvary of a common...
...wisest course might be a slow step-by-step disengagement, with the measures growing as mutual trust grew; no one step could set either power at a catastrophic disadvantage. Inspection of a meaningful kind would of course be necessary, especially at the beginning. A good first step could be an atom-free, demilitarized zone in middle Germany, which could be expanded if it were found workable...
Profit on Property. Chances are only fifty-fifty, Stevens admits, that Property will get the code's approval. It is the story of two switchblade hoodlums and their step-by-step seduction of a sex-starved housewife. Murder (at the bottom of the Stevens swimming pool), sadism, and an uncommonly forgiving husband are all crammed into the script...
...biggest member is Canada, which was also the pacesetter in the step-by-step process of converting colonies into nations. Last week, in the most characteristic ruling gesture she can make, Elizabeth II, accompanied by her consort and a retinue of 31 ladies, maids and retainers, began an exhaustive, exhausting Canadian tour to show herself as the Commonwealth's cohesive symbol not only to the leaders but especially to the plain people of Canada...