Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being heard with widespread respect, especially in continental Europe and Great Britain. According to the line, the new threat to peace lies in the proposed NATO missile buildup. The soft-line positive formula for Western survival: military neutralization of West Germany and the satellites as a first step toward the military neutralization of Europe...
...face of Europe? . . . There is a further contingent danger and a very imminent one as things now stand; and this is that atomic weapons, strategic or tactical or both, may be placed in the arsenals of our continental allies as well. I cannot overemphasize the fatefulness of such a step. I do not see how it could fail to produce a serious increase in the existing military tension in Europe. It would be bound to raise a grave problem for the Russians in respect of their own military dispositions . . . Any Russian withdrawal from Central and Eastern Europe may become unthinkable...
...biggest farmer organization, the 1,600,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation. Meeting in Chicago last week, the A.F.B.F. called for a "special effort" by the Government to get whole farms into a long-term conservation reserve. Benson's new approach also made sense, as a step in the right direction, to the respected Committee for Economic Development, a private organization of high-level businessmen and educators. In a thoughtful farm-policy study released last week, C.E.D. argued that it would be cheaper for the Government to rent farm land than to buy and store surplus crops, because...
...Pakistan's famed Founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, to form a caretaker government to rule until next year's general elections. If his 45-man majority stands firm and Prime Minister Noon brings about elections next year with a common ballot, Pakistan will have taken a long step along the road to political stability...
...process that is common in everyday life: a flashback of past experience, and an almost instantaneous comparison of the present with previous similar experiences. For this area of the brain, to which no function had been assigned, he proposes the term "interpretive cortex." Its discovery, he suggests, is a step toward explaining what Hippocrates called the brain's power to "distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant...