Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Arthur Watkins met to determine whether Joe McCarthy should be censured. This time the hearings were quieter, and Joe had neither public microphone nor TV camera to amplify his techniques. Methodically the committee studied its evidence. In December the U.S. Senate took the rare and unusual step of condemning one of its members (67-22) on two counts: 1) abusing the subcommittee that investigated him in 1951-52, and 2) attacking the Watkins committee in a way that impaired the Senate's integrity and dignity...
...most cases their faces were all too familiar. Magsaysay's vice president, Carlos Garcia, who has taken over the presidency, has been campaigning as diligently as anyone. But Manila politicians predict that at a certain point Garcia will step aside in favor of someone who will gratify his real ambition, a seat in the Supreme Court. This someone might be either Nacionalista Party Chief Senator Eulogio Rodriguez, or adroit old Yaleman (Law School '20) José Laurel Sr., who was puppet President during the Japanese occupation. Another eager to run is Magsaysay's old enemy Claro Recto...
Speaking again before a near capacity crowd, the physicist said there will be decisions in the future when the scientist must step out of his role as a creator of knowledge to make certain that society understands that there are more important questions involved in some decisions than are superficially indicated...
...Government the problem is how to maintain a strong domestic industry in case of war, which has always found the U.S. in short supply of critical metals. Unwilling to raise tariffs in the interests of world trade, the Eisenhower Administration in 1954 stepped up its stockpiling program, set about buying big supplies of the metals for strategic storage. By also bartering surplus U.S. grain for surplus foreign lead, zinc and antimony for the stockpile, the Department of Agriculture aimed to hold down metal imports. While the program helped U.S. miners by raising prices of zinc and lead, it also worsened...
...sentence: "[The Snopeses] accreted in from Frenchman's Bend into the vacuum behind the first one's next advancement by that same sort of osmosis by which . . . they had covered Frenchman's Bend, the chain unbroken, every Snopes in Frenchman's Bend moving up one step, leaving the last slot in the bottom open for the next Snopes to appear from nowhere and fill . . ." Thus Faulkner attempts to set a whole town talking at once about itself and in its own tone of voice. He deliberately imitates the total recall of a village wiseacre who insists...