Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scooters (eight scooters have already been stolen this fall) is a situation with which the University Police cannot possibly deal except with Administration support. By pressing Cambridge to enforce its law on required bicycle registration and by requiring such registration within the University, the University could take a long step towards discouraging bicycle theft...
...stop before a shopwindow and on display is a beautifully made overcoat. You like the stylish cut, the color, and even the price. You step inside and the clerk tells you, 'That's not for sale.' Your determination leads you consecutively to the department head and the store manager, but everywhere you get the same answer: the goods are not for sale, but for the shopwindow. That shopwindow has been turned into a museum...
...totalitarian country is the feeling, a feeling that never leaves him, of the grotesqueness and ridiculousness of one's own self-the reduction of dreams-the reduction of desires-a moral atrophy-the inability to react to the vileness one sees at every step, every...
...collaborationist line that might have destroyed the church just as surely through spiritual surrender. Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and his precarious stand-off with the Red regime has shown that toughness can be combined with shrewd compromise. In the Western countries, the Pope took a bold political step in 1949 when he excommunicated all Catholics who "knowingly and freely . . . defend and spread Communism...
...economy that many people thought it was. After six months of declining, consumer credit turned around in August as people switched to buying more than they paid off. In effect, many a consumer wisely used the recession to pay off debts-and now is in shape to step up buying again...