Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussion, the Lampoon representatives have expressed their sincere regret about the material in question. They have joined in the discussion with regard for their fellow students who have taken offense at the humor directed at ethnic groups. Most importantly, the Lampoon will take every reasonable step to discontinue the use of thoughtless racial stereotypes and material such as The Lampoon Buchenwald advertisement. Quite rightly, they take the position that they must retain editorial discretion and on this we are agreed...
...Assad on the prospects for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. An intensely proud man, Assad is the only Middle East leader who declined an invitation to Washington; he even balked at meeting Carter in London. The President, however, apparently decided that it would be worth going the extra half-step to see Assad, the only major Arab chieftain with lines open to the Soviets...
After being paroled in 1974, Galante took over control of the Mafia family once run by Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno, who retired to Tucson, Ariz., in 1964. At first, Interim Boss Philip Rastelli was unwilling to step aside. Gunmen killed his stepson, James Fernandes, on a Brooklyn street. Rastelli...
...announcement marks a halting step forward in the U.S. attitude toward Vietnam. In the two years since Saigon's liberation, the U.S. has vetoed three U.N. applications from Vietnam, and has steadily maintained its trade embargo. The Vietnamese have made efforts to meet America halfway--delivering the bodies of American servicemen this spring and promising to intensify efforts to find the 800 Americans still listed as missing in action--and the Carter administration seems sincere in its desire to normalize diplomatic relations with Vietnam...
...high range, the voice moves with greater facility than most voices nowadays--but that's only because today's crop of singers are unable to handle high notes. Jose Carerras or Placido Domingo often sing not just arias, but entire acts a whole step down. Today Tenors with "tops" are special phenomena. One need only recall singers like Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, whose upper range range with a clarion brilliance that would bury any Pavarotti high C. The great Fancesco Tamagno, the original Otello and perhaps the greatest Otello of all time, would often take arias up a half step...