Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood for adventures. Secret treaties were being signed. The adolescent machine gun would cause untold loss of life. So T.R. began to move his ships and his diplomats in consort to try to head off history's first world war. Said T.R.: "I never take a step in foreign policy unless I am assured that I shall be able eventually to carry out my will by force...
Hydraulic Stretch. The surveying had to be done at night because daytime heat foiled the accuracy of the surveyors' instruments. The next step was to pour a continuous slab of reinforced concrete 6½ miles long with adjustable fasteners for the rails, which are 7 ft. apart and three times as heavy as railroad rails. They came in 3Q-ft. sections and were welded together on the spot into 10,000-ft. lengths. Merely fastening them to the concrete slab would not do; the temperature of the Tularosa Basin fluctuates between zero and 120°F. If the rails...
...cities, they commanded a minimum of $20 (and up to $100) per "sexual contact," averaged $20.000 a year each. But none had turned prostitute mainly for money; some of them came from well-heeled homes. When they emphasized the importance of money. Analyst Greenwald found, they were rationalizing their step...
...Sprinting in nearly perfect step, Australia's 19-year-old Herb Elliott and Mervyn Lincoln whipped across the finish line of a mile race in Perth, Australia in the identical time of 3:59.6. The winner by microseconds: Elliott, running his third successive mile in under 4 min. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Dublin's Ron Delany loafed through the second and third quarters but finished flat out to win in the slowpoke time of 4:10 over Hungary's Istvan Rozsavolgyi, who was running his first race...
...over to Chrysler and told the astounded officials that, as of June I, he was dropping their account. Why? One big reason is that Harper obviously sees a chance to land more G.M. accounts if he does a good job on Buick. Furthermore, there were prospects that Buick would step up its spending in an all-out effort to bolster its badly skidding sales, hurt by Buick's stodgy styling. Buick, in third place only two years ago, is now in fifth, behind Plymouth and Oldsmobile. What Ragsdale apparently wanted was the same kind of eye-catching "Forward Look...