Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Star Wars. So this is how a big commercial film presents itself to the public these days, I mused. No sky-scanning spotlights, no jewel-bedecked starlets traipsing out of glossy limos, no obligatory horde of autograph hounds hanging out their tongues in anticipation of the next celebrity to step out of a chauffered car onto the theater sidewalk. Just a lot of regular folks ready and willing to sweat out the wait and shell out the four bills to screen another Jaws-type blockbuster...
...Carter Administration is acutely aware, it may take some time before the U.S. will be able to exert pressure on a Jerusalem government that is an unknown quantity. "I hope that the election of Mr. Begin will not be a step backward toward the achievement of peace," President Carter said last week in a cautious assessment of the changeover. Added the President, "we are now assessing in a private way ... the possible consequences of the election results." Even Israel's citizens still need to sort out the meaning of what was in many ways the most extraordinary election...
...later became a member of the Army-Navy committee that laid the groundwork for the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. A target of antiwar protesters during the Viet Nam War, he countered by calling them "enemies of the U.S." and urging draft boards to step up their induction. While instituting the draft by lottery and the volunteer army, President Nixon eased Hershey out of office in 1970, making him a presidential adviser on manpower mobilization. When he retired from the Army at 79, Hershey was the oldest military man on active duty...
...from publication until now, Wright tells of his tumultuous, troubled early manhood. In his 20s he left the South for Chicago, where he found relief from the physical brutality of Mississippi. But he was introduced to subtler forms of intimidation. If the whites no longer kicked him, they inevitably stepped on the spot that Wright was mopping in the hospital laboratory and tracked the dirty water around. "If I ever really hotly hated unthinking whites," he recalls, "it was then. Not once during my entire stay at the institute did a single white person show enough courtesy to avoid...
Wright, "that a lunatic could step into it and help run it? Were we all so mad that we could not detect a madman when...