Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right-to-work laws forbid union membership as a condition of employment, thus outlaw union shops, thereby go one step beyond the federal Taft-Hartley Act's no-closed-shop provision. Eighteen states, mostly Southern and Midwestern, already have R.T.W. laws...
...Egyptian delegation walked out. Since this might be admitting that the charge was true and the shoe pinched, the Egyptians returned four days later, full of glossy assurances of "our brotherly relations with Tunisia and of sincere cordiality." But without quitting the Arab League, Tunisia took a further step last week: it broke off diplomatic relations with Cairo. Why the abrupt shift...
This was no garden-variety variety show, for Fred Astaire is a professional perfectionist. He and his troupe sweated through seven weeks of rehearsal. Every step was planned; every word was carefully timed. And the end result was the essence of relaxation. Titian-haired young (23) Barrie Chase, Fred's new partner, fitted into his new routines as easily as Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse ever fitted into the old. Jonah Jones, a beaming barrel of a man, demonstrated that a trumpet can almost talk, especially if it has Astaire's tireless feet to talk back. Fred, singing...
...formal communique did not go into the question of Chiang's cutting his forces on the offshore islands. But new dispatches from Taipei said it was learned Chiang had agreed to consider this step if the Communists silence their guns...
...marched up the street, blasting their way through the Washington Post March. Half a dozen puttee'd policemen leaped on their machines and raced ahead to clear the way. The bass drum thumped into the smoky air and crowds of civilian marchers fell in behind. The firemen followed, in step, bearing posters that read VOTE YES ON 4. A red-white-and-blue semi-trailer truck rumbled into the square snorting diesel smoke and music, staffed by ten young men who threw down handfuls of Kennedy-Furcolo buttons and armloads of paper streamers. Just ahead of it walked...