Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel v. the Arabs were piling up menacingly. On Israel's behalf, public pressures were spreading through Congress all the way up through Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader William Fife Knowland to the White House door. Ike had come back from Georgia to press his step-by-step program. His next move: talk it out with top Senators and Representatives in secret session beginning the next...
...efforts to mediate in Kashmir. By casting the Soviet Union's 79th *veto in the Security Council, Sobolev effectively killed a resolution, jointly sponsored by the U.S., Cuba. Britain and Australia, to send Council President Gunnar Jarring of Sweden to Kashmir as a step "toward the settlement of the dispute." The resolution did not mention plebiscite, but noted in passing that former U.N. resolutions calling for demilitarization and a plebiscite in Kashmir had so far been ignored...
...fail." As they settled down around the conference table in Paris last week, the Premiers and foreign ministers of Western Europe's six Common Market nations* knew that they must either reach final agreement on their plans for a super-customs union or renounce the most plausible step yet towards a united Europe...
...nearly two hours the models perform their ritualistic dance, ending with the traditional wedding dress. Then, with a spatter of conventional applause, the audience erupts from the gilt seats and flows down upon the black-clad vendeuses stationed at every step on the stairway. Each buyer has her personal vendeuse, each vendeuse her jealously guarded clients. Many will return later to make their decisions. But others, momentarily unhinged, corral their vendeuses, rush off to a grey-curtained alcove, get out of their street dresses and demand to try on themselves one of the creations they have just seen modeled...
...Manhattan during World War I. When word about the shocking doings at Reisenweber's got to the Victor Talking Machine Co., the Dix-Jelanders were asked to come up and cut two sides. They blared two of their liveliest numbers-Livery Stable Blues and Dixie Jazz Band One-Step-into an eightinch acoustical horn, and thus became the creators of history's first jazz record...