Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there nothing, then, the U.S. could do? The hard truth was that the U.S. position in China was almost bankrupt. The New York Times reported: "Military Aid for China Is Sent in Navy Vessels." EGA officials did their best to step up shipping schedules, get cargoes of rice into Shanghai, whose authorities were harassed by food riots. But it was too late for such slight and tardy assurances of friendship and aid to have much practical or spiritual effect...
...general fell into step beside the young infantryman and together they plodded toward the Rhine...
...minutes in fact, and like a loyal Socialist I'm going to listen." Glowing with pleasure at the words, Belgium's Premier nevertheless had to get to the broadcast. Still concealing his identity, he waved a banknote at the reluctant driver. "Ah," said the latter, "step in, step in. After all, that villain Spaak has been repeating himself for 25 years...
...huffed a police sergeant at the palace gates, "there's nothing to see 'ere. Nobody need wait who don't know what 'e's waitin' for. Step along now. Step along." All around him the milling crowd grinned self-consciously and held its ground. For a week or more, curious and sentimental Londoners had gathered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace to gaze curiously at a third-floor window, wait aimlessly for a while, drift away and return again to renew the vigil...
...Port-au-Prince last week, peasants were singing: "Estimé, c'est bon papa; he makes his people step ahead." The pro-government papers printed flowery poems of praise, in which every pronoun referring to Estimé was capitalized. To at least one Haitian, that was carrying things too far. Snorted waggish Senator Alphonse Henríquez: "Another Christophe! Another Toussaint L'Ouverture! Another Jesus Christ! . . . Hell! A motor in a pair...