Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who had been Duggan's immediate superior in the State Department, sent a telegram to New York's Mayor O'Dwyer which said: "I find it impossible to believe his death was self-inflicted . . . I hope you will [take] every step . . . to find out whether there may not be some other explanation." Mayor O'Dwyer, further spurred by superheated newspaper stories which darkly suggested foul play, put 33 detectives on the case...
...program has been in the works since Minister of Trade & Commerce Clarence Decatur Howe broached it to top U.S. brass in Washington last summer. The first step was to get the approval of the National Military Establishment, which controls the designs of U.S. planes. The second was to make a deal with the U.S. aircraft manufacturers...
...Jamison Handy was 20, he helped develop the American crawl. Reading a Sydney newspaper's fuzzy description of the Australian crawl, with which Down Under swimmers were then smashing records, young Handy tried to imitate the stroke he had never seen. The Australian crawl was such a sensational step forward that some kind of American imitation was inevitable; other Americans besides Jam Handy tried their own adaptations. The U.S. style that finally emerged combined the double over-arm stroke with a loose-leg kick from the hips instead of the knees. Using it, Handy won three national free-style...
Last week, for the third time since World War II ended, there was war in Indonesia between The Netherlands troops and native nationalists. The Dutch started it. As they had before, they called it "police action"-a necessary step which, they said, they had been "regretfully obliged" to take against terrorists...
...Further Step. Daniels carried this line of reasoning a step further at last April's Bogotá conference. Supported by Argentina, he advanced the doctrine of continuous recognition. The doctrine, adopted as Resolution 35, bound the conference's members to renounce recognition as a weapon in international politics. Recognition of Nicaragua followed...