Word: step-by-step
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...American people should insistently demand that Congress put a stop to step-by-step projection of the United States into undeclared war. . . . Exceeding its expressed purpose, the Lease-Lend bill has been followed by naval action, by military occupation of bases outside the Western Hemisphere, by promise of unauthorized aid to Russia and by other belligerent moves...
...agreement among employers and union leaders to a step-by-step program for settling strikes, and to a no-strike policy until every means of settlement has been exhausted...
...these paper plans had three common characteristics: 1) they assumed a step-by-step increase to the wartime maximum; 2) they assumed that this increase would be acquired by conscription, to be voted after war was declared; 3) they had no logical basis, since the U. S. never told its soldiers where and under what conditions they should be prepared to fight...
Insisting that Germany always wanted peace and sought only to strike off the shackles of the Versailles Treaty, he reiterated his assertion that the Nazi invasion of Scandinavia and the Low Countries was merely a measure to forestall Allied aggression. Then he launched into a step-by-step review of Germany's victorious campaigns, heaping praise on his fighters, some of whom had just paraded into Berlin, on triumphant leave. He lauded his Italian ally. Germany is now stronger even than at the outbreak of war, he boasted, and Russo-German relations have been firmly established, with...
...plan. All that has come out of the White House thus far-$1,182,000,000 for armament, plus "more than a billion dollars" for more armament, a request for additional authority to call out the National Guard and reservists-all that is merely educational, preliminary; a step-by-step, carefully graduated plan to prepare the Nation imperceptibly for whatever may come, economic or political...