Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hard-liners in the West were quick to denounce the invasion as a first step toward the seizure of the oil fields and warm-water ports of the Persian Gulf, ) and as part of a continuing overall Soviet design for the conquest of the world. More moderate experts, like Diplomat and Historian George Kennan, the father of the doctrine that the U.S. and its allies must "contain" Soviet expansionism around the globe, had another explanation. They believed that Leonid Brezhnev and the other Kremlin gerontocrats were seeking a buffer zone against Islamic ferment in Iran, much as Joseph Stalin...
...campy high school scenes featuring girls who look and dress like 28-year-old hookers. They taunt Carrie in a highly unfeminine fashion that might be more plausible if they were jocks abusing a classmate perceived as a sissy. Rock Star Darlene Love, playing a teacher, breaks character to step forward and smile in acknowledgment of the audience's greeting. The high school bits are apparently meant to be spoofs, except for a bizarre dance about slaughtering a pig, which turns out, inadvertently, to be the funniest moment. As gross-out entertainment, Carrie fails to deliver. Early scenes offer literal...
...This year we made a big step," Pratt said. "We gained the respect of all the teams in the East...
...that Epps, Harvard's only Black dean, and thus, one who is obviously familiar with the activities of Blacks in higher education, purports to be unaware of the practices of Black fraternities and sororities. One can only be amused when he states, "Apparently students are required to walk in step in al line all of them stepping together wherever they go. It appears to me that such regimentation is abridgement in spirit of individuality...
January 1988: Administrators step up University efforts against the union by distributing a briefing book to supervisors. Administrators also hold closed meetings to urge support for the University's position...