Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made the guarded announcement that several different approaches to the fusion problem have "for some months been yielding substantial numbers of neutrons . . ." These neutrons, the announcement explained, may come from the energy-yielding fusion of deuterium (heavy hydrogen) nuclei. If the scientists can prove that they do, an important step will have been taken toward controlled fusion...
What Is the Next U.S. Step...
...show is saved by Frank Sinatra, who does a tremendous job in the title role. Pal Joey was a hoofer in the play, and Sinatra does not dance a step in the film, but somehow he crowds the screen with rhythm every time he moves. Furthermore, he is a superb rhythm singer. Tense, rackety, jagged with energy, his rhythms pile up, break apart, flow and jolt with all the jeer and honk and curiously impersonal impulsiveness of rush-hour traffic. And nobody can turn a blue note green the way Frankie can−a green as sour and insolent...
Among other weighty matters probed by Parkinson are personnel-recruitment policies (first step: "Reject everyone over 50 or under 20 plus everyone called Murphy"); retirement problems (the aging top man must be made to retire "while still able to do the work better than anyone else" or his second in command will enter "the Age of Frustration [and] will never be fit for anything else"); and the high art of spotting key people at cocktail parties ("Their arrival will be at least half an hour after the party begins" and they will rotate about the room clockwise, shunning the walls...
Diplomatic sources used such terms as audacious, surprising and bold to describe the unexpected step which put another professional soldier, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky, into the high post of defense minister...