Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the job thus demands high qualifications, Lord Hailes was apparently chosen mostly for political reasons: as Patrick ("Paddy") Buchan-Hepburn he served 25 years as a Conservative Member of Parliament, seven years as Tory Whip. When Harold Macmillan appointed him last May, the London Times took the unusual step of scolding the Prime Minister in its lead editorial. But this week the new Governor General will start his tenure energetically by beginning a five-week tour of the infant nation's islands...
...order by the Nazis, Conant declared, hastened the collapse of the Republic. Hitler's success was due to his "plain gangster tactics." He called the new German Constitution, drawn up by French, British, and American representatives, and ratified by the German Parliament in 1948, a positive step towards establishing a democratic government...
...disarmament impasse. While somewhat more substantial than the Dullesian criteria for Russian expressions of good-will (e.g., an end to the Soviet drive to "subvert independent countries"), the British idea cannot produce any lasting disarmament agreement by itself and may not even be sufficient as a first step...
Among the airmen stationed at Ardmore Air Force Base in southern Oklahoma, an increasing number no longer walked with brisk military step or the traditional wild-blue-yonder look. First by ones and twos, then at the rate of ten a day, they shuffled with short, gingerly steps to the base hospital. Heads sunk to their chests, their breathing fast and shallow, they complained that it hurt if they breathed deeply. Any jarring motion, even from a few brisk steps, was painful. Some kept their arms folded to serve as a sort of splint for the chest...
...this week took another step down the road toward generating electricity from atomic fuels at a cost competitive with hydroelectric power or coal power. The Argonne National Laboratory at Lemont, Ill. announced its experimental boiling water reactor, put in operation a year ago and originally designed for an output of 20,000 kw. of heat had been safely operated at a level of 50,000 kw., cutting the estimated cost of electricity per kw-h from 5.2? to 3.2?. while that price is still too high to be of commercial use, Argonne estimates that four boiling water reactors like...