Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times in recent weeks cracked down on more conspicuous Communist propaganda efforts), but in his usual self-justifying fashion blames his predicament on the West. He was astonished at the hostile reaction observed when he "Egyptianized'' all foreign business. He thought he was just taking one more step toward purging Egypt of exploiting foreigners, apparently expected British and French investors would still invest in all-Egyptian enterprises-even though posters all over Egypt depict the British and French as ogres and snakes...
Except for his general feeling of discouragement over the state of his nation, his party and his stomach, nobody knew just why Burma's top man U Nu chose to step down from the premiership nine months ago. Last week, except for the fact that his astrologers had declared the moment auspicious (11:15 a.m., March 1), nobody knew just why U Nu had chosen to take power again. But when U Nu gave the word, the Burmese Parliament without a dissenting vote accepted the resignation of interim Premier U Ba Swe and named U Nu in his place...
...change in their attitude was caused by Government money tossed into guided missiles in billion-dollar chunks. Everyone at the San Diego meeting realized that missiles will soon replace aircraft as prime consumers of taxpayers' funds. For forward-looking space-flight workers that is already history. Next step beyond missiles is true space navigation, and no manufacturer who wants to stay on the Government's contract list can afford to neglect it. So practically every outfit even remotely connected with aircraft or missiles was represented at San Diego, and trying hard to look as space-minded as possible...
...find means of destroying it. They may try manned vehicles that could maneuver handily like PT boats of space. These vehicles could harass enemy satellites, shooting them down with space torpedoes or filling their orbits with steel shot revolving in the opposite direction at 20,000 m.p.h. Next step might be space destroyers to deal with the space PT boats...
...Soul. In the monthly Today, Jesuit Philip Mooney approves heartily of dating. In a country like the U.S., where individuals decide for themselves whom they will marry, he calls it "practically a necessary first step to an intelligent choice of a marriage partner later." But going steady, he finds, is bad for both the body and soul of those too young to contemplate marriage as imminent. "Teenagers going steady are enkindling mutual love in much the same way as courting couples do ... But the sacrament of union is not within their reach as the natural term of their desires...