Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while most students and faculty are quick to disavow terrorism, they also charge that the government is overreacting-particularly against students-in an atmosphere of hysteria. "Oh God!" cried one Berlin student after learning of the Schleyer kidnaping. "One step closer to a fascist state." When a lampoon appeared at Gottingen University with a "non-obit" for Schleyer, tastelessly referring to his limited options of a "shabby life" or a "shabby death," police staged a three-hour search of the student-government building, its printing offices and two apartments. They seized 33 copies of the pamphlet, and the university rector...
...third actor in the athletic director drama, ROBERT WATSON, is finally being allowed to retire come February. Perhaps not as gracefully as he had hoped when he announced his original decision to step down last October, but for the former Harvard dean of students, that house down on the Cape must finally seem real...
...block can keep the motor from starting at all. The Olds diesel has a block heater and a "prechamber," where the mixture is briefly heated by a glow plug. The driver turns on the ignition, then waits for an instrument-panel light to shine, telling him that he can step on the accelerator to start the engine. At 0° F., that can take a full minute...
Pope Paul VI approved a decree this summer citing "the heroic virtues" of Father Damien, the first step on the road toward sainthood for the Belgian-born missionary. Famed for his devotion to victims of leprosy in Hawaii, Father Damien followed a calling that led to his death from the disease. Now the leprosarium that he made famous, Kalaupapa, is dying of attrition-and for the most welcome reasons: new cases of the disease have become rare among ethnic Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians, and leprosy can be treated so successfully today that newly identified patients soon become noncontagious. The savage...
Though the new medications made it possible to release noncontagious patients from quarantine and isolation, politicians and the public were slow to recognize this. It was not until 1969 that the government of the fledgling state of Hawaii took the final bold step of abolishing isolation-in effect, flinging the prison doors wide open. The patients at Kalaupapa and at Hale Mohalu, a hospital and treatment center in Pearl City on Oahu, were free to leave or to come and go as they pleased...