Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approval gained in a 7½-hour closed session of the Cabinet. In his briefcase were the proposals that Begin had discussed with Jimmy Carter the weekend before, though by now they had been refined considerably. Begin's arrival in Egypt, like Sadat's in Israel, was another historic step, though this was no state visit. There was no pomp and ceremony. Only a small group greeted Begin's 707 as it landed at the military airbase of Abu Suweir?one that the Israelis had bombed in 1967 and 1973. An army helicopter then took Begin to Ismailia, where...
...superhawkish ultra-Zionist sent waves of concern, and even fear, throughout much of the world. The Arab press, led by Cairo, bitterly denounced him as a dangerous annexationist dreaming of a Greater Israel. Even Jimmy Carter hinted that he was concerned that Begin's election might "be a step backward toward the achievement of peace." In Israel itself, some of Begin's defeated Labor opponents warned grimly that his right-wing Likud coalition "will force us into another...
...treacle has arrived," announces the local crier in the alleys and squares of our village: my grandmother rushes outside, dragging me along beside her, toward the canal where a ship loaded with treacle has just arrived from the nearby Kafr Zirqan. The road is not long, but every step fills me with joy and pride: men stand up as we pass to greet Grandmother. Though illiterate, she is a haven for everybody; she solves their problems and cures their sick with old Arab concoctions of medical herbs unrivaled in our village or in any of the neighboring ones...
...reason for last week's plunge was a growing belief among foreign exchange dealers that Washington is complacently prepared to let the dollar bears do their worst. As the dollar's autumn slide gained momentum, dealers began anxiously watching for signs that the U.S. was prepared to step in and buy up dollars to support their price. When news leaked out two weeks ago that U.S. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal had met secretly in Paris with European monetary officials, currency traders assumed that a dollar-propping agreement would be announced at last week's monthly meeting...
...nothing less than a re-forming of the Reformation. Play the Pope cleverly, and roll your dice right, and Martin Luther becomes a minor malcontent known only to historians. Dunnigan's buyers are lean and hungry; their rooms are sandbagged with history books. "Games are one step beyond print!" he says, very excited by this idea. "You travel in a paper time machine that lands you in the middle of the event...