Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effective than they actually were. For it is no mean feat to hold a defensive alliance together when an aggressor seems to be going strong. This was achieved in Paris against odds." Far from using the NATO conference as a springboard for progress, the television report was a faltering step backward...
...commitments to the all-out production of missiles that are not yet operational. The Soviet peace-propaganda offensive, much in the minds of all NATO statesmen and their constituents, demanded renewed efforts of U.S. diplomacy. The first limited test-firing of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile was an important step toward regaining free-world confidence in U.S. technical strength, but further discoveries of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee strongly indicated that past mismanagement in the Pentagon might be one reason why the U.S. had lost technical leadership in the first place. Beyond all this was the fact that the free world...
...thirds of the half-million tribesmen in the territory he administers as senior bishop are still pagan. The bishop considers their conversion more a matter of manpower than of time. "With enough priests to station one every ten kilometers, it would not take too long," he says. The first step in that direction is a new seminary with an enrollment of , more than 100 students on a 15-year course. One of his biggest problems: witchcraft, which he lets alone as long as it sticks to medicine, but attacks with a combination of logic and ridicule when it spills over...
...there is no doubt that the taste of the companies-and of the customers-is gradually improving. Says Columbia Artists President Frederick C. Schang Jr.: "They start listening to Mantovani. In time they want Kostelanetz, which is a step up. or maybe the Boston Pops. Then maybe they will venture on to a big-time symphony orchestra playing Tchaikovsky. After that, one of these days, they'll even go for Beethoven-and they are caught. That's the way it's done in this country...
...plot to blow it up. As the bridge mounts, so does the suspense. For every timber that slides into place, the raiders (William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Geoffrey Home) make another march to their goal. As in some awful myth, as in all human history, creation and destruction keep inexorable step. They collide in a conclusion that will be for many almost a shattering experience-and yet a curiously exalting one as well...