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Word: stepping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffa cockily: "What the hell, it just means another fight." It could mean a great deal more than that. If Judge Letts sticks to his guns, the ruling could lead eventually to Hoffa's being kicked out of the Teamsters' presidency. It was the most serious legal step against Teamster corruption since the Senate committee began its exposures, and, in the light of the "big week" in Miami, it came none too soon. "Now we have a blueprint to get something done," said Monitor Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue. "We haven't even begun to clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Dreams & Nightmares | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...Most of them in the tradition of Union soldiers, who dubbed it the Virginia or Tennessee quickstep, depending on where they were campaigning. Currently popular: turista in most of Latin America; "Aztec two-step" or "Montezuma's revenge" in Mexico; "Turkey trot" and "Gyppy tummy" in the Middle East; "Delhi belly" in India; and-universally-"the trots" and "the G.I.'s" referring not to government issue but to gastrointestinal symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Turista | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...establishment of a few permanent positions in History and Lit will not prove a cure-all for the field's difficulties. But any system that will enable some men on a high faculty level to devote most of their time to History and Lit would surely be a step in the right direction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Impermanent Wave | 12/18/1958 | See Source »

Though the retirement was pictured by the Chinese as strictly voluntary, Western envoys in this Polish capital expressed belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev might have had a hand in it. They said that if Khrushchev did not precipitate Mao's step directly, they were certain he was pleased with...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Mao Tse-Tung Resigns Position; West Refuses to Leave Berlin; Air Force Crew Launches Thor | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

...Criticism" seconds Bate's point and adds that in general the adherents of a non-historical approach are "on the defensive" in the Harvard English department. Brower regards his approach to literature--"to have as full an experience as possible without thinking of time and place"--as one step away from History and Lit in order to move two steps closer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History and Literature: A Synthetic Dicipline | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

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