Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks had Dwight Eisenhower looked so well: his color was good, his step quick. Nevertheless, health-conscious Washington buzzed with rumor. Under congressional consideration, but likely to advance nowhere, were proposals for firmly certifying presidential disability and transferring presidential functions to the Vice President (including an Administration recommendation advanced by Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., delegating responsibility for the decision to the Cabinet). The hubbub prompted a blunt question at the President's press conference: Was Ike planning to resign? Replied the President coldly: "The worst rot that I have heard since I have been in this office." There...
...tough a bull for the Washington china shop. Now at last on the Washington scene, LeMay will succeed General Thomas D. White, who has been promoted to Chief of Staff (TIME, April 8). And under the important deputy concept of the Eisenhower Administration, he will be only one logical step away from Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force...
With an almost audible sigh of relief, Great Britain last week laid down its role of policeman to the world, and in one bold step advanced into the nuclear age, where its troops will be fewer, its weapons deadlier, and its costs lower. In doing so, Britain almost gratefully abandoned its claim, which has sounded increasingly hollow even to British ears, to rank with the world's two major military powers...
Black Market in Scrolls? The study of the fragments has had a stunning impact upon both Jewish and Christian Biblical scholarship. Not only do they provide a wealth of script samples from different eras to advance the science of paleography by a giant step; they provide a far earlier authority for the text of the Old Testament than had been available. The Old Testament is based on the so-called Masoretic text (from masora, tradition) developed in the 7th, 8th and 9th centuries A.D. by the schools of Babylonia and Palestine. Older than the Masoretic Bible is the Septuagint...
...political issues and concentrated on the immediate question of reduction in arms. Harold Stassen's proposal for a two stage 25% reduction in conventional arms shows signs of being accepted on its merits alone. If this reduction can be effected, it will represent a significant, thought not conclusive step forward. The actual achievement of any agreement with the Russians, will, moreover, signify a new atmosphere of harmony in which more gains can be made. Real progress can only come if the conventional arms reduction provides an inspection system that admits international observers to military posts...