Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more dangerously threatened by a Communist Party that is the largest in Asia outside of Red China. But the personal magnetism of Sukarno, the political leadership of Premier Djuanda, and the surprisingly competent and anti-Communist army under General Haris Nasution have so far kept the nation a full step ahead of anarchy...
...Steche's next step was to make an artificial bee of wood, mount it on the end of a 5-in. spiral of wire attached to an oscillator. He sticks the model, faintly perfumed with lavender, through a hole in a glass-walled hive and lets the oscillator wiggle it. The bees crowd around and observe. As soon as they get the message, they swarm out and unerringly fly to the lavender-flavored sugar water that has been placed to reward them...
Insurmountable Barriers. The same ancient obstacle is a roadblock to unity with those other "separated communities"-the Protestants. Pope John is said to be sounding out Protestant leaders on the possibilities of having Protestant representatives at the ecumenical council as "observers." This in itself would be a significant step in Protestant-Catholic relations; Protestants refused to attend the last ecumenical council of 1869-70. Last week Protestant reactions to the Pope's planned council were calculatedly reserved...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4--A bill to make Hawaii the 50th state moved one step forward yesterday by getting a 5-4 vote of approval by the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs...
Within the next month, therefore, the Western allies should present to the Soviet Union a step-by-step proposal which first leads to limitation then reduction of forces in both Germanies and finally to free elections and reunification. A proposal which demands more faces no chance of success; a plan which concedes more might lead to disaster...