Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, after 44 days of shelling the tiny islands with little or no military gain, Communism drew back a step or so. Nikita Khrushchev proclaimed softly that the U.S.S.R. would come to the aid of Red China only in the event of "an attack from without"-i.e., an attack by the U.S. Then Red China ordered a seven-day cease-fire in the Formosa Strait, and Red China's Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai sent a special message to the Nationalists proposing peace talks between Chinese Communists and Chinese Nationalists. While holding out what...
...also decided "to defer for the present" a plan to reopen only those classes to which Negroes have not been admitted by court order. In Norfolk, salted with Northerners and heavily dependent on the big U.S. Navy base for business, the tongue-in-cheek city council took the next step prescribed by Virginia's massive resistance laws, asked Almond to reopen the schools on a segregated basis. Almond ignored the petition; it was plainly an effort to make him directly responsible for defying court orders. ¶In Little Rock deputy U.S. marshals fanned through the city to serve school...
...government in exile, Ferhat Abbas spelled out for TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow the F.L.N.'s current position: "As long as De Gaulle does not reveal his hand, we will go on fighting. Our army has never been as strong. We are in a position to take a step forward to a ceasefire. We want to find a humane solution to this war. But while it is true that De Gaulle has not mentioned integration, the French army continues to wipe out villages and kill Algerians...
...wacky onstage humor and macabre offstage antics have inspired the story that he is as strange as any of the characters he invents-one step away from the funny farm. For further evidence, his friends point to his house in Mamaroneck, N.Y., where in his black secret den he keeps a lonely chair which he considers his throne. "I sit in it and pretend," says he. "I pretend I'm king...
After six years of debate this Council has taken the step of leaving NSA. But we advocate eventual return. We are resigning temporarily in order that Harvard's name, which the NSA flashes quite eagerly, should not be misused. We want certain procedural changes, but to effect them from within the organization is either impossible or impractical. Harvard's withdrawal, we are hoping, will be a glass of cold water. But we are not stopping there. A complete report of our reasons for withdrawal is being sent to every one of the 350 member colleges...